BIO 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bitter Orange, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning
7 Feb 2018
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Science: a coherent body of knowledge related to certain categories of facts, objects, or phenomena obeying laws that are verifiable through experimental methods: cannot verify=not science, an approach to understand natural world. Inquiry: a search for information and explanations of natural phenomena (process used in science: aims to acquire new knowledge, two approaches, description based (ex. Describing nature, need observations for helping us to understand science: hypothesis based (ex. 1. 2. 2 deductive reasoning (linked to a hypothesis-based approach) Involves stating a hypothesis and drawing conclusions (after experimentation or observation: from general to particular. Lagoon in florida: all processes start with observation leading to a generalization=leads to testing and verifying. Observations: observation: gathering of information, either through direct use of senses or with help of tools (e. g. microscopes) detailed observations help with understanding (ex. Sun always rises to the east? (we question observations)leads to hypothesis: hypothesis can be or not falsified, we can never say that a hypothesis is the scientific truth.
