re science and methodology was homeopathy tradition in article c jduo k unx sas com sasghm theseus unx sas com gary merrill writes of course we can t hope currently at least to explain how or why kekule had the daydream of snakes in the fire biting their tails surely it wasn t the only daydream he had what was special about this one could it have had something to do with a perceived analogy between the geometry of the snakes and problems concerning geometry of molecules is such analogical reasoning extra scientific or is it rather at the very heart of science perice s notion of abduction the use of models within and across disciplines upon close examination is there a non rational mystical leap taking place or is it perhaps closer to a formal though often incomplete analogy or model i feel the need to repeat myself kekule s dream is a rather bad example of much of anything read root bernstein s book on the history of the benzene ring mark a fulk university of rochester computer science department fulk cs rochester edu
