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... Rewrite a bi-conditional statement as a conditional and its converse Identify whether reasoning used is inductive or deductive Find next items in a pattern Use the Laws of Detachment and Syllogism to draw a conclusion from given statement(s) Identify the algebraic property illustrated by a statement ...
... Rewrite a bi-conditional statement as a conditional and its converse Identify whether reasoning used is inductive or deductive Find next items in a pattern Use the Laws of Detachment and Syllogism to draw a conclusion from given statement(s) Identify the algebraic property illustrated by a statement ...
If…then statements If A then B The if…then statements is a
... The if…then statements is a conditional statement. B “requires” A to happen. This establishes a conditional relationship. A proof is a formal justification of a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a possible explanation for an observation that has yet to be established as fact. Learning how to apply conditi ...
... The if…then statements is a conditional statement. B “requires” A to happen. This establishes a conditional relationship. A proof is a formal justification of a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a possible explanation for an observation that has yet to be established as fact. Learning how to apply conditi ...
Cosmological Certainty
... corroborated hypotheses, h1, h2, …hn added on to T1. The resulting theory, T2, satisfies all of Popper’s requirements, (1) to (4) for being a better theory. Furthermore, given any accepted physical theory (Newtonian theory, classical electrodynamics, general relativity or quantum theory), it will a ...
... corroborated hypotheses, h1, h2, …hn added on to T1. The resulting theory, T2, satisfies all of Popper’s requirements, (1) to (4) for being a better theory. Furthermore, given any accepted physical theory (Newtonian theory, classical electrodynamics, general relativity or quantum theory), it will a ...
Cosmological Certainty - Philsci
... accepted physical theory (Newtonian theory, classical electrodynamics, general relativity or quantum theory), it will always be possible, in the way indicated, to concoct endlessly many “patchwork quilt” theories that are better, according to (1) to (4). Such theories are, it may be objected, horri ...
... accepted physical theory (Newtonian theory, classical electrodynamics, general relativity or quantum theory), it will always be possible, in the way indicated, to concoct endlessly many “patchwork quilt” theories that are better, according to (1) to (4). Such theories are, it may be objected, horri ...
Believing Where We Cannot Prove Philip Kitcher
... “Creationists in turn insist that this belief is not scientific evidence but only a statement of faith. The evolutionaries seems to be saying, Of course, we cannot really prove evolution, since it requires ages of time, and so, therefore, you should accept it as a proved fact of science! Creationist ...
... “Creationists in turn insist that this belief is not scientific evidence but only a statement of faith. The evolutionaries seems to be saying, Of course, we cannot really prove evolution, since it requires ages of time, and so, therefore, you should accept it as a proved fact of science! Creationist ...
Some Notes on the Philosophy of Science
... According to Popper, his account of falsification provides what he calls the “criterion of demarcation” – that is, the criterion by which one can draw a line between science and pseudo-science. A claim is scientific if and only if it is falsifiable. Now, consider claims of creationists. Are they fal ...
... According to Popper, his account of falsification provides what he calls the “criterion of demarcation” – that is, the criterion by which one can draw a line between science and pseudo-science. A claim is scientific if and only if it is falsifiable. Now, consider claims of creationists. Are they fal ...
The “Scientific Method”
... Søren Kierkegaard, S: Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments: A Mimic-PatheticDialectic Composition: An Existential Contribution by Johannes Climacus, Swenson, D F, Lowrie, W, eds, ...
... Søren Kierkegaard, S: Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments: A Mimic-PatheticDialectic Composition: An Existential Contribution by Johannes Climacus, Swenson, D F, Lowrie, W, eds, ...
Class Notes, Part 1
... Science is empirical: the ultimate criterion for judging a scientific theory is its agreement with the empirical facts. Science is rational: scientists’ judgments in general are influenced by empirical facts and logical inferences from them- not by “extraneous” social, psychological, or political mo ...
... Science is empirical: the ultimate criterion for judging a scientific theory is its agreement with the empirical facts. Science is rational: scientists’ judgments in general are influenced by empirical facts and logical inferences from them- not by “extraneous” social, psychological, or political mo ...
Test fall 2006 for TOK1024
... b. Construct two sentences where you come to a conclusion by inductive reasoning. 5. (3 points) Metaphysics: Give an example of a metaphysical question, and try to answer it shortly, with your own words. 6. (6 points) Philosophy of science! The project of the logical positivists and Karl R Popper wa ...
... b. Construct two sentences where you come to a conclusion by inductive reasoning. 5. (3 points) Metaphysics: Give an example of a metaphysical question, and try to answer it shortly, with your own words. 6. (6 points) Philosophy of science! The project of the logical positivists and Karl R Popper wa ...
My first university was in my home town, Durban, in the mid
... A big issue when I started doing philosophy was ‘incommensurability’. The idea was that scientists with different theories will necessarily mean different things by their words, and so will be unable to communicate with each other. Initially I bought the premise. Given the prevalent ‘use’ theories ...
... A big issue when I started doing philosophy was ‘incommensurability’. The idea was that scientists with different theories will necessarily mean different things by their words, and so will be unable to communicate with each other. Initially I bought the premise. Given the prevalent ‘use’ theories ...
Bold hypothesis by Popper
... reached firm ground. We simply stop when we are satisfied that the piles are firm enough to carry the structure, at least for the time being." “[3] ...
... reached firm ground. We simply stop when we are satisfied that the piles are firm enough to carry the structure, at least for the time being." “[3] ...
Falsifiability
Falsifiability or refutability of a statement, hypothesis, or theory is an inherent possibility to prove it to be false. A statement is called falsifiable if it is possible to conceive an observation or an argument which proves the statement in question to be false. In this sense, falsify is synonymous with nullify, meaning not ""to commit fraud"" but ""show to be false"".For example, by the problem of induction, no number of confirming observations can verify a universal generalization, such as All swans are white, yet it is logically possible to falsify it by observing a single black swan. Thus, the term falsifiability is sometimes synonymous to testability. Some statements, such as It will be raining here in one million years, are falsifiable in principle, but not in practice.The concern with falsifiability gained attention by way of philosopher of science Karl Popper's scientific epistemology ""falsificationism"". Popper stresses the problem of demarcation—distinguishing the scientific from the unscientific—and makes falsifiability the demarcation criterion, such that what is unfalsifiable is classified as unscientific, and the practice of declaring an unfalsifiable theory to be scientifically true is pseudoscience.