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4926727656ScienceA way of knowing about the world.0
4926727657Counter-intuitiveGoes against common sense.1
4926739115DeductionMoving from general principles to specific examples.2
4926727658InductionMoving from specific examples to general principles.3
4926742734Problem of InductionNo matter how many times you see a pattern you can't be certain it is going to repeat.4
4926727659Karl PopperGuy who said you learn more in science from being wrong about an idea. You can KNOW your wrong.5
4926727660FalsifiabilityAbility to show that theory is false6
4926727661FactObservation everyone agrees on.7
4926727662HypothesisAn educated and testable suggestion.8
4926727663TheoryWell-test explanation that explains many things and has been accepted as true for a long time.9
4926727664Science is limited tonatural explanations10
4926727665Science uses the fivesenses11
4926727666EmpiricalKnowledge that comes from the 5 senses12
4926727667Scientific conclusions arealways subject to change.13
4926727668A limitation of science is that it isnot able to answer moral or value questions (like opinion, beauty, art, love, purpose, etc.).14
4926731953Fraunhofer LinesAbsorption lines in the solar spectrum15
4926737044Place of helium's discoverythe sun16
4926746578Methodological NaturalismAn approach in which the world is explained solely in terms of natural, rather than supernatural, phenomen17
4926754602Occam's razor"Entites should not be multiplied beyond necessity." Or, the simplest explanation that fits the data is probably the right explanation.18
4926760070Thomas KuhnSaid that science undergoes *paradigm shifts*, not linear & continuous progress.19
4926763102Problem of DemarcationIt's sometimes difficult to separate mainstream science from fringe science from pseudoscience.20
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