ASCI 2000 Lecture Notes - Necker Cube, Botany, Scientific Method

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Arts and Sciences
• Course: ASCI 2000
• Professor: Pat Barclay

Document Summary

A means of determining the truth about something; a way of knowing whether a particular claim is true or false. A process; a way of knowing about the world. (steps 4 & 5 are what really makes something science) The scientific method can be applied to topics in most subjects not limited to. When referring to science in this lecture, referring to the process, not the subjects. The botanist looking at a daffodil has no reason to dispute the right of the poet to look at the same object in a very different manner. Factual (e. g. does/did the world work this way?) Values (e. g. should the world work this way?) Interpretative (e. g. what can this mean to us?) Science can tell us what is and why it is that way. It cannot tell us how things should be or what meaning we want to take from things.