SOCECOL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Critical Rationalism, Falsifiability
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Scientist: formerly naturalists or philosophers (know what it is and what they do) Testing: for an idea to be scientific it must be falsifiable, have the capacity to be incorrect. No truth is science, science/knowledge is provisional its always supported as a theory until we find something that doesn"t support it. Science stands only until thrown by another theory. Why are answers in science not called facts and are instead called theories? regards all answers as tentative. Theory: comprehensive explanation of concept in nature supported by. Broadly applicable, intellectually coherent, capable of generating testable predictions. Scientific method: we make hypothesis, design experiments to test them, if it holds other attempt to replicate, when it gains enough support it becomes. Problem with science is that there is not enough replication but people do not want to see the same things published again but it"s important.
