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Science
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Facts gathered by man's osbervation of the physical world
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Fact
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Something that is true
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Doctrine of Humors
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What everyone belives? Hippocrates. living things that contain 4 "humors" (fluids) that must be balanced
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Doctrine of Signatures
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A hunch that works? God left signs in nature to cure diseases. Ex. liverwort cures liver diseases.
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Infusion
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Made by boiling animal or plant material in water. Grew microbes when they began to spoil.
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Microbe
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A microscopic organism; grown from infusion
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Logical reasoning
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A process arriving at a conclusion through a series of ordered steps. (Classified as either inductive or deductive.)
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Inductive reasoning
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From specific facts to a general conclusion. (a process of beginning with many facts or assumptions in order to reach a general conclusion.)
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Deductive reasoning
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From general to specific facts. (the process of beginning with known facts and predicting a new fact.)
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Faith
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What a person believes
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Truth
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God's Word is truth.
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According to the Doctrine of Humors, what conditions were necessary for a person to be happy?, make ill?, cure him?
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All 4 humors are correctly proportioned. Too much or too little makes ill. Conteracting the predominant fluids would cure.
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On what assumption is the Doctrine of Signatures based? What could be done to cure illness?
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When God cursed man w/ disease he left signs of cures in the physical world for them.
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What evidence did those who believed in spontaneous generation offer to support their belief?
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John Needham's experiment of infusion in vials w/ stoppers to keep air out. Each vial grew microbes "spontaneously."
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Give an ex. of inductive reasoning & deductive reasoning.
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Inductive: faling objects = gravity. Deductive: "All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Socrates is mortal."
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