Evidence in Science
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Evidence in Science

A Simple Account of the Principles of Science for Students of Medicine and Biology

  1. 125 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Evidence in Science

A Simple Account of the Principles of Science for Students of Medicine and Biology

About this book

Evidence in Science: A Simple Account of the Principles of Science for Students of Medicine and Biology is an 18-chapter text that explores the truth behind ""principles of science"" and the correction of wrong beliefs about it. The book starts with a presentation of the root of some wrong beliefs and strongly differentiates the truth and falsity of Science. The following chapter covers the method on how scientists discover pure Science, such as the famous Aristotle's Theory of Deduction. This topic is followed by discussion on scientific method to widen the scientific facts, which are credible and reliable by the help of evidences. Other chapters are devoted to the laws of nature, purpose of things, and notion of a cause. This book also explores observation and errors of observation and then proves a fact with the use of evidence. The last chapters discuss the experiments done to answer an uprising question or weaknesses of a fact and also the probability in which a statement may be true but still a guess. This book is of value to medical and biological science students, as well as to the general reader who wishes to inquire into the scope and nature of scientific knowledge and the possibility of understanding medicine and biology.

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Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781483212777
eBook ISBN
9781483226200
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Biology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Evidence in Science: A Simple Account of the Principles of Science for Students of Medicine and Biology
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. PREFACE
  6. CHAPTER I. CREDULITY
  7. CHAPTER II. TRUTH AND FALSITY
  8. CHAPTER III. KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF
  9. CHAPTER IV. THE ORIGINS OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD
  10. CHAPTER V. ARISTOTLE'S THEORY OF DEDUCTION
  11. CHAPTER VI. THE MODERN THEORY OF DEDUCTION
  12. CHAPTER VII. THE CREDIBILITY OF GENERAL PROPOSITIONS
  13. CHAPTER VIII. INDUCTION BY SIMPLE ENUMERATION
  14. CHAPTER IX. THE INSPIRED GUESS
  15. CHAPTER X. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
  16. CHAPTER XI. THE LAWS OF NATURE
  17. CHAPTER XII. THE PURPOSE OF THINGS
  18. CHAPTER XIII. THE NOTION OF A CAUSE
  19. CHAPTER XIV. OBSERVATION AND ERRORS OF OBSERVATION
  20. CHAPTER XV. THE SEARCH FOR CAUSES
  21. CHAPTER XVI. CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS
  22. CHAPTER XVII. MATHEMATICAL PROBABILITY IN RESEARCH
  23. CHAPTER XVIII. THE ART OF SOPHISTRY
  24. INDEX

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