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    Occam's Razor Answers

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    2. My answer for this question, the explanation that is the easiest to understand is the best explanation, is wrong because the explanation that is without the extra assumptions should be preferred, even though it might not be the easiest to understand. Occam's Razor centers around this idea that if you hear hoof beats think horse, not zebra. A horse should first come to mind because it is the most likely explanation and more commonly found to be the answer. I honestly think the wording tripped…

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    beginning of this concept and the major reasons for it. Rotational grazing start to come around the 20th century due to severe rangeland degradation and now it is the professional norm for grazing management. There are arguments that rotational grazing systems can work for diverse management purposes, but scientific experiments have demonstrated that they do not necessarily work for specific ecological purposes. The scientific evidence refutes the ecological benefits of rotational grazing, but…

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    this statement is 100 percent true because without the use of facts nothing can be proven, however theories can help us create facts. With the development of theories there is a basic necessity for proof. The only way to prove a theory is with experimentation, which will lead to be factual information once experimented on. Of course there are some exceptions like in religion there are plenty of theories and none are based off of factual evidence. When it comes to Heaven and Hell and Jesus and…

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    Powerful people in the past might have ultimately shaped and influenced the way we perceive history and the way we look at things. Most of us if not all of us have heard the heroic story of how Christopher Columbus discovered America but there are two sides to each story and we never thought of listening to the other side of it because we thought it was true since it’s what we learned at school and from the media. According to a quote by McNeill, “A historian who rejects someone else’s…

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    Kuhn's Argument Analysis

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    throughout time the same scientific data has been viewed differently by people in various global locations. These differences could very possibly be caused by each person having their own unique observation. Kuhn believes our world view to be all we have, it is how we view the world observe and experience the world but there is no way to discover how close our world view is to reality. Here, Kuhn suggest that each individual being experiences the world differently. His reasoning is as follows:…

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    David Hume On Knowledge

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    Hume argues that we are naturally inclined to reason about the world using evidence from our senses or past experiences, but whether this evidence we use is actually good as knowledge is what he questions. Hume argues that our beliefs about what is true about something, is based on our past observations of that thing. For example, the laws of physics are assumed to be true because in all past observations they have held true. According to Hume, the problem with what we regard as knowledge is…

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    Science is a way that man tries to understand better the natural and social world. Scientic literacy is important to each individual because it makes them understand the works of science on a deeper understanding. Science literacy according to “Science Matters” written by Robert M. Hazen means, “The knowledge you need to understand public issues.” In everyday experiences we have questions on how something works and scientific literacy makes us ask, find, and determine answers to what we don’t…

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    Absolute Dating

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    In the absence of absolute dating, there are other elements that can help us to know the relative chronology of the monuments. The characteristics and style of the religious and funerary written monuments and their texts did not stay static but changed during the Roman period. Thus, if we can identify when innovations were introduced and when others disappeared, their presence can be use for determining the date of an inscription. External elements as typology and decoration as well as internal…

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    In this Written assignment I will be Talking about the four social theories of aging, and then I will compare them, and then speak a little about the “Strengths” and “Weaknesses” of each theory. Finally, I will speak about how they fit in with the Ecological framework. We will quickly talk about the basis of each theory and what they are about. First one will be the Continuity Theory, its main basis is that a human’s personality the way they act, is decided early in the life of us human beings…

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    personality as the reasonably stable patterns of emotions, motives, and behavior that distinguish on person from another. (Rathus, 2014) There are some theory perspectives on personality that give pause to the depth of each personality type. For instance, there are several theories of the psychodynamic perspective. This is also known as psychoanalytic theory. According to the work of Sigmund Freud, the psychodynamic perspective emphasizes unconscious psychological processes (for example,…

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