BIOLOGY 1P03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Knowledge Engineering, Atomic Number, Sodium Chloride
20 Sep 2016
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Revealed truth vs. use of reason/ enlightenment (the idea of asking questions) Science: independent veri ability (must be able to verify independently) Objective knowledge- you are not the only one that knows the truth, through sharing or following the same experiment. Knowledge through arts, literature, poetry and thoughts is subjective knowledge. Scientists will say that science is the only way to know for sure what is true because it is veri able through tests. There are different ways to pursue truth and reality. Science is only one way to produce a form of truth. Smallest possible unit of matter, which maintains the chemical and physical properties of its elements. Thus an element is larger than an atom. Proton- has one unit of positive charge, protons are in the nucleus. Neutron- has no charge (electrically neutral), neutrons are in the nucleus. Electron- has one unit of negative charge, are in the surrounding orbital.
