what do you think of these two ideas? do you agree of disagree? please answer in
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what do you think of these two ideas? do you agree of disagree? please answer in complete sentences.
1. I think that answering a hypothesis does give you a certain amount of knowledge. A hypothesis is not only the building block for the scientific method, it is also an educated guess. The key word here is educated. Hypothesis' don't appear out of thin air. For example, I would not say that I am in Africa if I have recently bought a plane ticket to California and ever left. I have sufficient evidence to prove that my Hypothesis that i am NOT in Africa is correct. The video I found most interesting discussed G.E. Moores thoughts on the subject. His ideology said that there is every day knowledge that we all have a general understanding that are true, and then philosophical thought that would counter argue the general understanding. He explains that the general understanding makes more sense and is widely thought, therefore it is more likely to be correct than the philosophical idea. The more things that are proven in history through the scientific process shows that with a hypothesis, new ideas are formed, and things are proven and deemed to be true.
2. I think that a hypothesis can give you knowledge. Even though it is hard to know if something is true or not, I do think that thru a hypothesis we can gain knowledge. This is because a hypothesis makes you take a deeper look at what you think. Not only do you have a specific question about something but also, you go through a process to actually get evidence and find out the truth by using the scientific method. Eventhough their is skepticism, I do not think skepticism works on everything. Though the video shows examples that may make you think differently, without a doubt I know we can all have knowledge and once we have evidence, the skepticism goes away. According to Bertrand Russell, "We are entitled to reject an instinctive belief when we discover it is inconsistent with other instinctive beliefs." He believes doubt remains about with common sense believes however, they are still reasonable enough to count as knowledge. Contrarily, G.E. Moore says you don't have to prove anything. You can have doubts about arguments but not about basic common sense. His example of this is, "Look at your hands, Hands are external objects, therefore external objects are real." This means we are real. Looking at different views really makes you think of what we can consider real and unreal however, we can not live being skeptical about absolutely everything. Like Moore said, we can be skeptical about arguments and this is where we make hypothesis to discover the truth about subjects of interest.
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I agree with your answer it's pretty good, as a science student hypothesis is the first step towards discovery. It is the hypothesis that makes us scientists different from the general public, the one who relies on guesses to make decisions. in science if you can make hypothesis then only you can do research to prove your point.
your answer is good but check for spelling mistakes.
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