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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"theory choice"”.
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Children's metajudgments in theory choice tasks: An investigation of scientific rationality in childhood
"The aim of this research was to explore the knowledge acquisition process in natural science domains. Recently, there has been much debate on the utility of the ""child-as-scientist"" metaphor as a way of characterizing children's knowledge acquisition. Proponents of the child-as-scientist …
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Prospects for a cognitive science of science
… familiar to philosophers of science, such as theory choice and scientific discovery. The appeal to cognitive science may be seen as an attempt to naturalize the philosophy of science. I examine and criticize several of the most important contributions to this new field. I argue that an …
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Axiomatization and Incompleteness in Arithmetic and Set Theory
… and Incompleteness in Arithmetic and Set Theory Wesley Duncan Wrigley I argue that are (at least) two distinct kinds of mathematical incompleteness. Part A of the thesis discusses Gödelian incompleteness, while Part B is concerned with set-theoretic incompleteness. Both parts are concerned …
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"We Shall Have to Make the Best of It:" The Conversion of Dennis Sciama
… of the steady state model of the universe. This theory, originally proposed in 1948 by Hermann Bondi, Thomas Gold, and Fred Hoyle, suggested that the universe was eternal, and unchanging on the largest scales. Contrary to the popular image of a scientist as a dispassionate, unbiased investigator …
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STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF FACTORS RELATED TO TRANSITION PLANNING THAT SUPPORT THEIR PURSUIT OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
… and comparing it to emerging themes. The Choice-Making model of the Social Cognitive Career Theory provided the framework upon which results were analyzed, findings were explicated, and assertions were formulated.</p> <p>The five major assertions of this study are: (1) students with …