Unit 4 Lesson 7

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Across
  1. 3. He formulated the falsification criterion
  2. 5. Affirming the…
  3. 6. Evidence based on observing reality (opposite to theoretical)
  4. 8. The logical strategy that underlies the falsification criterion is known as modus…
  5. 10. The idea that there is always more than one scientific theory that can be equally supported by the existing body of evidence
  6. 11. The property of a statement to be testable and refutable
  7. 12. A demarcation criterion that claims that scientific knowledge is true if there exists evidence supporting it
Down
  1. 1. According to the problem of theory-laden facts, every observation inevitably includes an element of this
  2. 2. A kind of development where some improvement occurs as we move from the past to the future
  3. 4. According to Thomas Kuhn, we cannot tell how close a theory is to the truth, we can only tell how good it is at solving….
  4. 7. This kind of bias is a dangerous consequence of using the verification criterion in science
  5. 9. The line between science and non-science