Genetic Engineering
Notes June 5th, 2006
What is Science?
~The description of the world in terms of natural laws as opposed to the
invocation of supernatural intervention.
~1st introduced by Aristotle (384 B.C. to 322 B.C.)
How does Science work?
~As a question about or observe a phenomenon. (formulate falsifiable or
testable hypotheses)
~Gather appropriate data (conduct experiments; make further
observations.)
~Accept/Reject hypotheses
Two Different approaches
~The Inductive Approaches
~a stepwise ascent from observation to theory
~collect as many observations as possible without presuppositions
~analyze data to isolate positive and negative features (I.e. what
is always associated with the phenomenon and what is never
present in the absence of the phenomenon.
~make generalization on the basis of evidence
~test the generalization under new conditions
~premises cannot be true and the conclusion follows from the
premises.
~the......
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