Feeling of the Philosophy

  MY REFLECTION ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALS STUDIED WITHIN WEEK 11   In this week, I learnt about scientific explanation, theories & theoretical explanation and concept formation. Under scientific explanation, learnt about two basic requirements for scientific explanation such as requirement of explanatory relevance and requirement of testability, deductive nomological explanation, explanandum phenomenon, probabilistic explanation, statistical probabilities & probabilistic laws and the inductive character of probabilistic explanation. Under, theories & theoretical explanation, learnt about general characteristics of theories, internal & bridge principles that a theory require, theoretical understanding and theoretical entities. Under concept formation, learnt about the difference between descriptive & stipulative, operationism & operational definitions, empirical & systematic import of scientific concept, scientific systematization and...

  MY REFLECTION ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALS STUDIED WITHIN WEEK 10   In this week, I learnt under scientific inquiry, test of a hypothesis, criteria of confirmation and acceptability and evaluating arguments during this week. Under scientific inquiry, learnt about basic steps in testing hypothesis, modus tollens & modus ponens, induction in scientific inquiry and four stages in an ideal scientific inquiry. Under test of a hypothesis, learnt about experimental tests and non-experimental tests, the difference between dependent and independent variable, auxiliary hypothesis and AD hoc hypothesis. Under criteria of confirmation and acceptability, I learnt quantity, variety and precision of supporting evidence, confirmation by new test implication, theoretical support, acceptability of a hypothesis and probability of a hypothesis. Under evaluating arguments, learnt about rules of rational argumentation, fallacies that violates rules of rational argumentation, ...