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SSFT Test 1 Questions and Answers 2024
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SSFT Test 1Theory - answer deep, powerful statement about nature. Well established. Need good
evidence to refute. (Hypothesis, in contrast, is weak.)
Hypothesis - answer weak and provisional. Must be tested by experiment.
Theory Again - answer Strong and Fundamental, predictive. Can interpret data, suggest
new avenues of research/hypotheses. Can be tested and can colligate strands of
evidence/ideas
Law - answer short mathematical expression of a physical phenomenon
Good Theory is: - answer Accurate
Consistent (with self and other theories. Maybe Quantum Mech and General Relativity
not the final theories of nature because not consistent!)
Wide Scope (beyond original exp.)
Simple (Occam's Razor)
Fruitful (can predict new things)
Empiricism - answer knowledge can be found by the senses, testing, experience.
Inductive. (Although no purely bottom up. Our belief in senses is based in religious
ideas)
Positivism – answer EVERYTHING can be (must be?) understood by the scientific
method
Idealism - answer science is just based on world view, is a societal construct
Lord Kelvin
(William Thompson) Quote - answer “When you can measure what you are speaking
about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot
measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and
unsatisfactory kind."
when scientists make a major discovery, they usually don't say "eureka," but "that's a
funny result". - answerIsaac Asimov
A. D. White - answerHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
(1896)
John William Draper - answerA History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
(1874)
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