[BIO1700] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 66 pages long Study Guide!
29 Mar 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Set of knowledge related to certain categories of facts, objects or phenomenon that obey laws and are verifiable by experimental methods. Scientific research tries to find new facts: 2 approaches: By description (ex describing nature, flat fish) Scientific approach: inductive reasoning (linked to descriptive approach): if something happens all the time, here is the explanation, go from particular-> general; could be false generalizations. (cid:862)the ora(cid:374)ge is sugary, the(cid:374) all ora(cid:374)ges (cid:373)ust (cid:271)e sugary(cid:863: deductive reasoning (linked to hypothesis approach): gives a hypothesis and make conclusions based off that hypothesis, goes from more general -> particular. If you have all 4 of the concepts in your experiment/theory, it is scientific: initial skepticism of the facts. Ask honest questions about the facts, scientists always have doubts about their findings, have to be legitimate doubts: realism. Logic: demonstrator has to follow coherent steps.
