WWB Trainer
WWB Key Ideas
MODE:
~
4 minutes
of short abstracts.
Philosophy of Science.
Some random key ideas.
1.
TST Theory of Truth asks: What makes an idea true? Truth is successful alignment between our representations and a determinate, mind-independent reality.
2.
Scientific models succeed not because they are perfectly true, but because they reliably capture patterns in reality. Trust scientific models for what they do well, but do not mistake them for reality itself.
4.
Nicolaus Copernicus did not prove heliocentrism—he built a model that explained the sky better than any alternative available at the time.
5.
Anthropology uncovers culture, and paleontology uncovers ancient life.
6.
A new look at dividing up the paleolithic era switches from lower, middle, and upper to Stone, Fire, Cultural, Symbolic, Cognitive, and prehistory ending specifically at 4,000 BCE.
7.
Always remember that even science is touched by human bias. Its strength lies in being a self-correcting process. You too can self correct.
9.
Preservation bias shapes what we think we know by favoring durable evidence over what decays.
10.
Speculation has a real place in science, but speculative ideas are not established truths. They are starting points, possibilities, or failed guesses that must eventually be supported, revised, or discarded.
Done. Refresh for another set.
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