Cow protection movement in meat. Indian Buddhist texts encourage a plant-based diet. Amritdhari Sikhs, or those baptized with the "Amrit", have been strict vegetarians, abstaining from all eggs and meat, including cattle meat. Sikhs who eat meat seek the Jhatka method of producing meat believing it to cause less suffering to the animal. Both initiated and uninitiated Sikhs are strictly prohibited from eating meat from animals slaughtered by halal method, known as Kutha meat, where the animal is killed by exsanguination (via throat-cutting). According to Eleanor Nesbitt, the general issue of vegetarianism versus non-vegetarianism is controversial within Sikhism, and contemporary Sikhs disagree. The
History of scientific method what can be kept while building a hypothesis. George Boole and William Stanley Jevons also wrote on the principles of reasoning. Attempts to systematize a scientific method were confronted in the mid-18th century by the problem of induction, a positivist logic formulation which, in short, asserts that nothing can be known with certainty except what is actually observed. David Hume took empiricism to the skeptical extreme; among his positions was that there is no logical necessity that the future should resemble the past, thus we are unable to justify inductive reasoning itself by appealing to its past success. Hume's arguments,