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Science as an Ideology Flashcards

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Kuhn

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Science is based on a Paradigm.

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Polyani

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Science operates like religion, by rejecting fundamental challenges to its knowledge claim.

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Horton

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Science = open, Religion = closed.

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Merton

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CUDOS, promotes the growth of knowledge and encourages openness. Communism, universalism, disinterestedness, Organised Skepticism.

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Popper

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Science is an open belief system open to criticism and testing. (falsification).

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