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Engr 297 Midterm One Prep Exam Questions With Correct Answers Techne - answerPlato "Our new freedom now turns out to be a much more sophisticated version of the old slavery. It is defined by its goal" Aristotle " Techne is the imitation of nature." Rationalism - answerPracticed by Descartes -...

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Engr 297 Midterm One Prep Exam
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Techne - answer✔Plato "Our new freedom now turns out to be a much more sophisticated
version of the
old slavery. It is defined by its goal"
Aristotle " Techne is the imitation of nature."

Rationalism - answer✔Practiced by Descartes - "Knowledge of the
world can be found through reason."

Empiricism - answer✔Practed by Bacon - " All of our
knowledge must be based in
observation through the
senses."

analytic method of reasoning - answer✔Descartes - "Break up into small parts and put in logical
order."

Mechanical Philosophy - answer✔Descartes - "Physical world consists of inert particles of
matter
interacting with each other.
- Nature works according to mechanical laws.
Nature is a perfect machine."

New Atlantis - answer✔Written by Bacon - Bensalem - utopian vision of industrialized society,
Unbridled optimism about technology

Context of Discovery versus Context of Justification - answer✔proposed by the logical
positivists, "it doesn't matter where ideas come from, just that they are justified."

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Paradigms - answer✔1) a set of theoretical assumptions that all
members of the scientific community accept.
• 2) a set of 'exemplars' or scientific problems that
have been solved using those assumptions (i.e.
textbook problems)
• 3) idea of how future research should proceed
• 4) idea of what problems are important to tackle
• 5) idea of what acceptable answers will look like.

Dialectic (Socrataic and Hegelian) - answer✔Socrataic
Process of argumentation and refutation used to discover the truth. Used to clear away
misconceptions and arrive at first principles.
Hegelian
The Geist evolves much like an argument does.
A society has an idea about the world(the thesis). The
thesis leads to obvious contradictions and this leads to
an antithesis. From both of these, society adopts a
synthesis (a combination of both ideas).

Democratic and Authoritarian Technologies - answer✔The idea that certain technologies fit
better in democratic or authoritarian systems.

Technological Unemployment - answer✔Loss of jobs due to improvement in technology

Race between the inventor and the stork - answer✔Inventing enough to prepare for the inevitable
population growth

Technologies that are political by design - answer✔Designs created to have a political affect

Inherently political technologies - answer✔Technologies that create politics just by existing

Anomalies - answer✔Phenomena that simply cannot be reconciled with the
theoretical assumptions of the paradigm

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