Week 1 reading Flashcards
What is empiricism
The practice of relying on observation
What is publicly verifiable knowledge?
Findings presented to the scientific community in such a way that they can be replicated, criticized or extended by anyone in the community
What is a peer review
A procedure by which each paper submitted to a research journal is critiqued by several scientists, and then judged by an editor who decides whether to publish or reject the paper
What is an empirically solvable problem
A testable theory
What are the principles of the scientific method
Science employs methods of systematic empiricism
It aims for knowledge that is publicly verifiable
It seeks problems that are empirically solvable and yield testable theories
What is operationism?
The idea that concepts in scientific theories must in some way be grounded in or linked to scientific events that can be measured
What is parsimony?
The idea that when two theories have the same explanatory power, the simpler theory is preffered
What is an essential condition of a ration variable
The scale must have a true and meaningful zero point
