HPS100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Inductive Reasoning, Boiling Point, Deductive Reasoning
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Chapter 4 conirming and disconirming evidence and reasoning. Conirmaion reasoning: about hundred years ago albert einstein propose the general. Einstein"s relaivity theory and other words the fact that it was correct predicions and notably predicions that would not made by compeing theories was taken as evidence that the theory was correct. Noiced there"s nothing unique to science about the sort of reasoning we use the same sort of reasoning all the ime. In general, would be based a predicion on a certain theory and those predicions cannot be correct this provides at least some evidence that the theory is correct. If we use t to represent a theory and o to represent one or more observaions predicted by the theory. Supposed to call their claim simply the claim that the fusion is possible at low temperatures that they have the conidence cold fusion theory .