Monday, September 15, 2014

Midterm Vocabulary

Class:
Here's the link to the Google doc where we can collectively map out where our terms are found throughout our readings.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IljCGpI0V-BR1xjmf-lDW9MBoIpx6yJTmg4ydNYD4BA/edit#gid=0

I've also pasted the list of terms here, in case there are some that are particularly tricky and need more discussion.

Birth control example in sci explan.
Causality
Context of justification
Context of discovery
Covering laws
Deduction
Deductive-nomological (DN) model
Empiricism
Explanans
Flagpole-shadow example
Metaphor
Natural Selection (Darwin)
Objectivity
Ockham’s (or Occam’s) razor
Paradigm shift
Problem of symmetry in sci explan.
Quantifiable
Quantum Mechanics
Reduction in sci explan.
Science
Scientific law or Law of Nature
Scientific method
Scientific theory
Subjectivity
Why-questions
Hume
Darwin
Huxley
Mendel
Galileo

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