We are not perpetually stuck at
the beginning of scientific knowledge.
Not exact matches
Begin with the thought that human development appears these days driven entirely by
scientific and technological advances (
knowledge) as influencing and influenced by economic, political, and social uses
of that
knowledge (praxis).
But before expressing this belief, Fr Holloway makes a general remark about the nature
of scientific knowledge which may serve as an introduction to Polanyi's refutation of Scientific Positivism and his proposal that science is Personal Knowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real beginning of the breakthrough in knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final pro
scientific knowledge which may serve as an introduction to Polanyi's refutation of Scientific Positivism and his proposal that science is Personal Knowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real beginning of the breakthrough in knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final proo
knowledge which may serve as an introduction to Polanyi's refutation
of Scientific Positivism and his proposal that science is Personal Knowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real beginning of the breakthrough in knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final pro
Scientific Positivism and his proposal that science is Personal
Knowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real beginning of the breakthrough in knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final proo
Knowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries
of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real
beginning of the breakthrough in
knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final proo
knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final proof.»
Can you not see that you are following the same logic that people without
scientific knowledge have followed since the
beginning of recorded human history?
Because Troeltsch, at the
beginning of this century, was keenly aware
of many trends that became apparent to most observers only at its end: the collapse
of Eurocentrism; the perceived relativity
of all historical events and
knowledge (including
scientific knowledge); an awareness that Christianity is relative to its Western, largely European history and environment; the emergence
of a profound global pluralism; the central role
of practice in theology; the growing impact
of the social sciences on our view
of the world and
of ourselves; and dramatic changes in the role
of religious institutions and religious thought.
There was the
beginnings of math and there was natural observation but
scientific knowledge didn't explode until the
scientific method was refined.
Here, if you like, is a man who, over a long period
of time, has followed a certain
scientific method and laboriously gained his results, who says to us: «Experience, with the help
of reasoning, leads to this point;
scientific knowledge begins here and ends there; such are my conclusions»; and the philosopher would have the right to answer: «Very well, leave it to me, and I'll show you what I can do with it!
With this
knowledge and the confirmation
of the works
of Lugassy and Barnhill on angiotropism and EVMM, the researchers in the
scientific community can now
begin looking for a drug target that will interfere with this EVMM process, with the hope
of creating a treatment that would stop EVMM.
In the last few years, a handful
of scholars have
begun to look more closely at Shakespeare's interest in the
scientific discoveries
of his time — asking what he knew, when he knew it, and how that
knowledge might be reflected in his work.
Attempts to ingest
knowledge by repeating lists
of facts or drilling on routine procedures don't work well, not even for the basics
of multiplication tables or
beginning reading, not to mention historical or
scientific concepts.
This process
begins with the production
of an initial draft
of a working paper about the developmental impacts
of chronic neglect, including a neurobiological perspective on what happens to the brain when it receives limited or inappropriate stimulation, and a discussion
of the relevance
of this
scientific knowledge for rethinking both policy and practice in child protective services.
The
scientific criteria for evaluating
knowledge claims are not complicated and could easily be included in initial teacher preparation programs, but they usually are not (which deprives teachers from an opportunity to become more efficient and autonomous in their work right at the
beginning of their careers).
The Cornerstone Assessments use
knowledge and skills related to
scientific investigation to inform instruction, inform student learning, and measure student progress over time (
beginning -, middle -, and end -
of the year).