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15 Jan 09

Positivism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    • A focus on science as a product, a linguistic or numerical set of statements;
    • A concern with axiomatization, that is, with demonstrating the logical structure and coherence of these statements;
    • An insistence on at least some of these statements being testable, that is amenable to being verified, confirmed, or falsified by the empirical observation of reality; statements that would, by their nature, be regarded as untestable included the teleological; (Thus positivism rejects much of classical metaphysics.)
    • The belief that science is markedly cumulative;
    • The belief that science is predominantly transcultural;
    • The belief that science rests on specific results that are dissociated from the personality and social position of the investigator;
    • The belief that science contains theories or research traditions that are largely commensurable;
    • The belief that science sometimes incorporates new ideas that are discontinuous from old ones;
    • The belief that science involves the idea of the unity of science, that there is, underlying the various scientific disciplines, basically one science about one real world.
11 Sep 08

Games Without Frontiers: How Videogames Blind Us With Science

  • One of the reasons kids get bored by science is that too many teachers present it as a fusty collection of facts for memorization. This is precisely wrong. Science isn't about facts. It's about the quest for facts -- the scientific method, the process by which we hash through confusing thickets of ignorance. It's dynamic, argumentative, collaborative, competitive, filled with flashes of crazy excitement and hours of drudgework, and driven by ego: Our desire to be the one who figures it out, at least for now. It's dramatic and nutty and fun.
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