However, in short class time, we did not have as much to talk about than this. We basically continued to talk about this idea for the whole group discussion.
FROM ALL IN GROUP 4........
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DQ: Is it good to be a skeptic in your life? Or is being skeptic to things in your life a bad thing?
FQ: True or False: - Barry Stroud said, “I believe the real source of skepticism lies in a certain understanding of perception, of how you actually do see me, or what kind of knowledge you can have of my presence of the basis of what you now see."
A: True
Link: http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~delittle/Encyclopedia%20entries/scientific%20realism.htm
This link gives a more in-depth look of what scientific realism is since we did not discuss as much due to the shortened amount of class time to discuss the topic.
The whole process is like solving a mystery. This doesn’t just have to apply to sciences, but maybe even to history as well. I think the reason why you want to answer the question in the first place determines how you come to your answer. You already have a bias in one direction, and it will influence your results. Even if we have the theory, how we present the information is very important. Because everyone has their own biases, what I explain to someone else may not necessarily be completely accurate, or the actual truth. People skew the data all the time to make it look how they want it to. Not only do you have to be skeptical of the theory itself, but also of how the theory is supported.
ReplyDeleteDQ: We’ve talked about the concept of reality. How can you be sure the scientific theories are correct if we aren’t even certain what to base reality on? How do you know you’re drawing the right conclusions about the unobservable world if you cannot even see it?
FQ: What is scientific realism?
A: “The view that the world as described by scientific theories really exists and we know about that world. In particular it is concerned with the world of unobservable.”