I think you’re interpreting him correctly. Senses means what it normally means, and he probably means something like you shouldn’t trust them naively, thinking things like “heat is light because fire is bright and the sun is bright”, instead you need a methodology (tool) to interpret your sense experience, aggregate your experiences, seek out one’s missing experiences. He might also mean literal tools too. He later describes how to make a primitive thermometer.
I think he would think the science between him and now was a lot better and people are doing the thing he wanted. (Many people a lot of the time though not all of the people all of the time.) He probably would have opinions about p-values and publication bias, etc., but he’d still think things overall have been much better in the last 400 years.
Yeah, definitely some kind of motte and bailey thing going on.
I think you’re interpreting him correctly. Senses means what it normally means, and he probably means something like you shouldn’t trust them naively, thinking things like “heat is light because fire is bright and the sun is bright”, instead you need a methodology (tool) to interpret your sense experience, aggregate your experiences, seek out one’s missing experiences. He might also mean literal tools too. He later describes how to make a primitive thermometer.
I think he would think the science between him and now was a lot better and people are doing the thing he wanted. (Many people a lot of the time though not all of the people all of the time.) He probably would have opinions about p-values and publication bias, etc., but he’d still think things overall have been much better in the last 400 years.
Yeah, definitely some kind of motte and bailey thing going on.