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Handout 2 - Small group discussion

Giant Cephalopods and the Nature of Science.


The questions you answered individually were all open-ended. Scientist and philosophers would have to struggle as much as you did to answer them concisely and correctly. However, particular ways of observing, thinking, and testing ideas are common to all sciences.

  1. Make a list of ideas that are common to the definitions of all your group members.




  2. Discuss the role of the following in science

evidence imagination
logic theory
faith argument
explanation observation
validation experiments





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