2006-12-28 05:13:55 · 12 answers · asked by marc_adams18 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Potentially infinite, because according to Karl Popper (whose views seem to be the most commonly accepted) the goal of science is to *disprove* a hypothesis and come up with a better one; in other words, we will never have completely found the solution to a scientific problem because while today's solution may work fine, new evidence may suggest that it needs refinement ... which means a fresh experiment, and therefore more steps in the logical process.
Heaven help you if you've been set this as a homework assignment by a teacher who thinks that the answer is 42 (or some other finite number).
2006-12-28 05:20:07 · answer #1 · answered by mrsgavanrossem 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
3
2006-12-28 13:17:01 · answer #2 · answered by reccos 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Three: the minor premise, the major premise, and the logical conclusion which is derived there from. This is syllogistic thinking, which is the formal way of describing our informal mode of thinking. Now I’ll describe informally the formal syllogistic mode of thinking.
Three acts of the mind are required to complete a logical thought: two assertions about things and one assertion about the distribution of those things.
For example, here are two assertions about two things “men” and “myself”:
1) men are mortal
2) I am a man
For example, here is the one assertion about the distribution of those things:
3) by “men” I mean ALL men, not some men.
It follows from these three acts of the mind (two about things and one about the distribution of those things) that I, as a subset of the set of ALL men, must share the property of All men’s mortality. Ergo, I am mortal.
2006-12-28 13:42:49 · answer #3 · answered by albert cipriani 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Logic: what's valid
Ethics: which actions are right
Aesthetics: beauty, art and taste
Epistemology:do we really know anything and if so, what?
Metaphysics: the big one, the search for...
Happy New Year!
Cassandra
2006-12-28 15:45:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
3.
2006-12-28 13:15:13 · answer #5 · answered by Vanity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Six if you forget psychology theory and use real world Six Sigma Quality Management techniques.
2006-12-28 13:27:20 · answer #6 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think its 3.
input, storage, retrieval oh i'm not sure now! i should have listened in psychology!
2006-12-28 13:19:45 · answer #7 · answered by bex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One. To be critque.
2006-12-28 20:46:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
3- idea-judgment-reaction
2006-12-28 13:22:41 · answer #9 · answered by bat 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1
No wait...5
or was it 3
I never made it without biting!
2006-12-28 13:15:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋