Week1 Flashcards
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Inductive reasoning
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Starts with specific goes to general. Leads to probability not certainty.
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Heuristic
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Mental shortcut to solve a problem.
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Deductive reasoning
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Commences with generalisation and uses careful, systematic thinking to move to a particular fact or consequence.
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Scientific method
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Way of observing, thinking about, and solving problems objectively and systematically. Largely deductive.
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Good theories
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Are: testable, give rise to testable hypotheses. Enable predictions and are comprehensive.
