APA 2180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Grothendieck Universe, Fallacy
4 Apr 2016
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Tradiion (authority of the past, what"s always been done) Personal experience (becomes more relevant, more likely to believe it) Science (logical process involving gathering data to help inform) None of these ways are foolproof (not even science) Vaccines auism (1 study blown up by media) Pascal"s wager (believe in god no loss) Take a law of nature, deduce, then observe hypothesis: fallacy of airming consequent (false theory can make true predicions) Research separates science from other ways of knowing. Use the empirical approach to avoid misleading results and poor interpretaions. Data empirical evidence or informaion one gathers carefully according to rules or procedures: qualitaive, quanitaive, or mixed methods. A body of techniques for invesigaing phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcing and integraing previous knowledge: auxiliary hypotheses (assumpions. Ex: earth"s orbit is large, telescopes were sensiive enough, much of science does not it the textbook model. The burden of truth is on the person with the novel claim.
