Nature of Science (AP-DC) Flashcards
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| 4926727656 | Science | A way of knowing about the world. |  | 0 |
| 4926727657 | Counter-intuitive | Goes against common sense. | 1 | |
| 4926739115 | Deduction | Moving from general principles to specific examples. |  | 2 |
| 4926727658 | Induction | Moving from specific examples to general principles. |  | 3 |
| 4926742734 | Problem of Induction | No matter how many times you see a pattern you can't be certain it is going to repeat. | 4 | |
| 4926727659 | Karl Popper | Guy who said you learn more in science from being wrong about an idea. You can KNOW your wrong. |  | 5 |
| 4926727660 | Falsifiability | Ability to show that theory is false | 6 | |
| 4926727661 | Fact | Observation everyone agrees on. |  | 7 |
| 4926727662 | Hypothesis | An educated and testable suggestion. |  | 8 |
| 4926727663 | Theory | Well-test explanation that explains many things and has been accepted as true for a long time. |  | 9 |
| 4926727664 | Science is limited to | natural explanations |  | 10 |
| 4926727665 | Science uses the five | senses |  | 11 |
| 4926727666 | Empirical | Knowledge that comes from the 5 senses | | 12 |
| 4926727667 | Scientific conclusions are | always subject to change. |  | 13 |
| 4926727668 | A limitation of science is that it is | not able to answer moral or value questions (like opinion, beauty, art, love, purpose, etc.). |  | 14 |
| 4926731953 | Fraunhofer Lines | Absorption lines in the solar spectrum |  | 15 |
| 4926737044 | Place of helium's discovery | the sun |  | 16 |
| 4926746578 | Methodological Naturalism | An approach in which the world is explained solely in terms of natural, rather than supernatural, phenomen | 17 | |
| 4926754602 | Occam's razor | "Entites should not be multiplied beyond necessity." Or, the simplest explanation that fits the data is probably the right explanation. | 18 | |
| 4926760070 | Thomas Kuhn | Said that science undergoes *paradigm shifts*, not linear & continuous progress. |  | 19 |
| 4926763102 | Problem of Demarcation | It's sometimes difficult to separate mainstream science from fringe science from pseudoscience. |  | 20 |