TEST 1 AND 3 FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE 123 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS 2025/2026
Salem Witch Trials - CORRECT ANSWER Examples of Witch Hunts
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-KKK
-Terrorism - CORRECT ANSWER Modern examples of Witch Hunts
1. The world is real
2. It Is possible for humans to understand the physical universe
3. Natural processes are sufficient to explain the natural world;
4. Knowledge is available to everyone - CORRECT ANSWER What are the 4 premises of science?
a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. - CORRECT ANSWER What is the scientific method?
Non-overlapping Magisterial - CORRECT ANSWER What is NOMA?
Refers to different domains of human experience and thought - CORRECT ANSWER What is the Magisterium?
-Empiricism
-Skepticism
-Self correcting
-Critical thinking
-Multiple working hypothesis
-Occam's Razor - CORRECT ANSWER ESSCMO (The Foundations of Science)
The idea that knowledge is based on sensory experience; it must be observable or measurable - CORRECT ANSWER Empiricism
(ESSCMO)
A form of critical thinking that uses reason and evidence to determine the likelihood that something is true - CORRECT ANSWER Skepticism
(ESSCMO)
Elimination of wrong ideas = progress - CORRECT ANSWER Self-Correcting
(ESSCMO)
The process of evaluating the validity and soundness of claims on the basis of well-supported evidence (Filchers) - CORRECT ANSWER Critical Thinking
(ESSCMO)
Cultivate many testable and plausible hypotheses - whatever survives disproof is more likely to be the right answer - CORRECT ANSWER Multiple working hypothesis (ESSCMO)
The idea that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed to explain something - CORRECT ANSWER Occam's Razor
(ESSCMO)
-Falsifiability
-Logical
-Comprehensiveness
-Honesty
-Replicability
-Sufficiency - CORRECT ANSWER Filchers (Critical Thinking)
It must be possible to conceive of a test that would disprove the idea if it were false; the claim must be testable - CORRECT ANSWER Falsifiability
(Filchers)
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