GNED 1203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Karl Popper, Anthropocentrism, Null Hypothesis
6 Feb 2020
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Scientific method = experimental method: needs and experimental group and a control group. Grobstein reading: science can"t be viewed as truth, null hypothesis must be falsifiable, for him science is a story that"s ever changing. Karl popper: austrian-british philosopher of science, phd in psychology, he wanted scientific hypothesis to be falsifiable in the future, the ability to reject, science is all about falsification, not proving. Gould continued: conflation blending two things together, known as misplaced concreteness. Charnela reading: human separation in being above and beyond nature, evidence is textual or made from reading other texts. Will humans disappear: common ideology: humans are special and the natural world exists for us (biblical notion, humans assumed to be separate from nature realm.
