Most important scientific theories
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However, there are two additional features that, together, distinguish scientific theories from other idea systems, such as those found in religion or philosophy. “Scientific” theories 1) explain and predict the phenomena in question; 2) produce testable and thus falsifiable hypotheses.
[DOC File]What is the difference between a Scientific Law, a ...
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Theories can be used as the bases to generate new hypotheses. One scientist cannot create a theory; he or she can only create a hypothesis. Further clarification of “Theory” vs “Law”: In general, both a scientific theory and a scientific law are accepted to be true by the scientific community as a whole.
[DOC File]Popper and Maxwell on Scientific Progress
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The whole enterprise of attempting to defend the idea of scientific advance involves us in theories of scientific progress, of which both Karl Popper and Nicholas Maxwell have made important contributions. At the beginning of Maxwell’s The Comprehensibility of the Universe, he describes the success of modern science beginning with Galileo and ...
[DOC File]Practice Questions – Chapter 1
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(a) Distinguish between inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning. Give an example of each. (b) Explain why scientific theories and laws are the most important results of science. What is a feedback loop? Distinguish between a positive feedback loop and …
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Present the 6 criteria for judging the scientific worth of a theory and ask the students which one of them is the most important. Since most students, especially those who have taken several courses in psychology, are imbued with the need to have data to support whatever conclusions they reach and will immediately say empirical validity.
[DOC File]The currently most plausible version of scientific realism ...
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The third distinctive character of Doppelt’s reconstruction of scientific realism (beside the requirement to explain theoretical virtues, and the assumption of the simplicity of nature) is the most striking and questionable: it draws a radical discrimination between (a) superseded false but successful theories and (b) current “most ...
[DOC File]CHAPTER 3
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Explain why scientific theories and laws are the most important and most certain results of science. A scientific theory should be taken very seriously. It has been tested widely, supported by extensive evidence, and accepted by most scientists in a particular field or related fields of study. Nonscientists often use the word theory incorrectly ...
[DOC File]Science: Conjectures and Refutations
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They contain most interesting psychological suggestions, but not in a testable form. At the same time I realized that such myths may be developed, and become testable; that historically speaking all — or very nearly all — scientific theories originate from myths, and that a myth may contain important anticipations of scientific theories.
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