BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bitter Orange, Negative Approach, Rationality

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Chapleau

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Inductive is often linked with d-b approach. Generalization based on one or many observations. Ex: assume we have an outside observer, sees all students coming into marion and makes this observation. He then says looks like there"s a class in marion. Deductive reasoning is linked to hypothesis based approach. Stating hypothesis and drawing conclusions from this. Ex: student sees people coming into class and says there"s must be a class but he then comes and verifies. You have to observe nature to make a hypothesis. From a hypothesis you can make a prediction. We can never prove a hypothesis is the scientific truth. This is the mechanism by which we can verify the original hypothesis. In science we take the negative approach. If i taste all kinds of oranges, then they will always be sweet. Travel to madagascar: tasted a very sour orange. We ask honest questions on hypothesis and always retest what"s been found.