PHIL-2366EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Google Drive, Falsifiability, Normal Science
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First class answers are uploaded on google drive. Is the understanding of the uniformity of nature assumptions based of off the past experiences since we have witnessed or others have witnessed these senses. Yet to fully believe in this understanding of the world is to essentially commit suicide through the use of over thinking any form of basic common sense. Kahn the structure of scientific revolution the idea that our scientific revolution actually doesn"t have a set out structure viewed. Introduced history and cultural context surrounding the idea of the scientific discovery effects the way that the discovery is. The idea of normal science = solving puzzles, logically (views scientists as technicians) Pascal"s theory of why believing in god or the afterlife is more beneficial than not. Pseudoscience unfalsifiable, which is the claim that there is no observable evidence to counter these theories (no physical proof, adaptation) Science = discovery (creativity) and justification (deductive proof)
