Across
- 3. a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitutes legitimate contributions to a field.
- 4. proposed by Karl Popper, is a way of demarcating science from non-science.
- 6. imply a cause and effect between the observed elements and must always apply under the same conditions.
- 7. the view that science and the scientific method are the only objective means by which people should determine normative and epistemological values.
- 8. a system of theories, assumptions, and methods erroneously regarded as scientific.
Down
- 1. their beliefs are based on reason and logic rather than emotion or religion.
- 2. knowledge gained from experiment and observation rather than from theory.
- 5. an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information.