ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Event Horizon, Jōmon Pottery, Falsifiability
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How science works (as a way of knowing) An example from japanese archaeology (the ainu) If time: how it can go wrong: begin to look at the anatomy of archaeology gone wrong (fujimura scandal in japan) Top hat question: which of the following best describes a hypothesis? a tentative explanation, must be proven, must go through a verification process or is a proposal that we try to falsify. The best answer is a tentative explanation, must go through a verification process and is a proposal that we try to falsify. There"s a real and knowable universe which is not myth or oral tradition. One of the things that is not knowable is the instances after the big bang in terms of relativity, and instances after the black hole when you go past the event horizon. The universe operates according to certain rules or laws.
