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Science |
is “objective, accurate, systematic analysis of a determinate body of empirical data, in order to discover recurring relationships among phenomena |
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Objective |
means unbiased, unprejudiced, detached, impersonal. It carries with it a clear understanding that you do not become ego-involved in your researchactivities; that you are not going to modify or even abandon your ideas right away when initial evidence indicating otherwise becomes available. |
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Accurate |
means that you strive to be definite, precise and exact. |
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Systematic |
carries with the implication that science is methodical, thorough and regular in its procedures ; that it involves many kinds of classificatory schemes. |
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Analysis |
means that you are concerned with the identification and study of the component parts or elements which make up things which you study. |
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Determinate |
means that there are relatively agreed – upon defined traits or boundaries which specify what kind of things or boundaries you study. |
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Encyclopedia, 2000 |
Science is any system of knowledge that is concerned with the physical world and its phenomena and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experimentation” |
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Description |
must come first before you can make intelligent statements about anything . You must first know what you are talking about. |
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Explanation |
answers the question “WHY?” it tells you how things and events come about, what causes them, what are the laws which determine their occurrence. It brings meaning to the description. |
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Prediction |
means that you can make inferences from facts or laws. when you predict, you say that “such and such will happen” or “if these conditions prevail”, then “so and so will occur”. |
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Generalization |
that can be verified through actual observation in the real world; |
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Controlled investigation or inquiry |
to demonstrate the relation between the theory and reality; |
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Prediction |
to demonstrate conditional relationship that consistently holds within stated limits, and that the propositions take the “if…then” form; |
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Causality |
that seeks single and multiple causes; and |
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Naturalism |
refers to the view that phenomena are aspects of nature and therefore are ordered according to the order of nature. |
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Determinism |
refers to the condition that phenomena can be determined, and all orders can be accounted for. |
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Common Sense |
is a sound and prudent judgement based on a simple perception of the situation or facts” |
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Common Sense |
information gathered from everyday knowledge and science is thorough research on a particular subject with concluded facts. |
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Science |
as a way of thinking, possesses many vital qualities for true understanding that common sense does not. |
