[HPS100H1] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (49 pages long)
1 Dec 2016
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They tried to understand the universe, how the world works, what are things made of. Back then there was no science whatsoever. Abundance of religion -> you could choose your own religion. The (cid:862)fu(cid:374)(cid:863) e(cid:374)ded whe(cid:374) christia(cid:374)s ca(cid:373)e alo(cid:374)g. The history of scientific theories. (we focus on this in this course. ) Theory: a set of propositions that attempt to describe something. Scientific mosaic: a set of all accepted theories. Note that scientific mosaics have changed over time. Scientific change: any change in the scientific mosaic. Many once-accepted theories are nowadays classified as non-scientific or pseudoscientific. We"ve defined 2 as: 1 + 1 = 2. We"ve defined 3 as: 1 + 1 + 1 = 1 + (1 + 1) = 1 + 2. Some basic theorems follow immediately from the definitions. Other theorems follow from definitions and basic theorems. More theorems can be deduced from those theorems and so on. How can you justify the statement: all swans are white.
