Across
- 2. Hypotheses that can only be proven or disproven based on evidence need to be based on ____ because sample sets for such hypotheses are too large.
- 5. For this reason, the ____ of hypotheses is better described as probabilistic.
- 7. This method of confirming hypotheses is both counterintuitive and ____, but it allows for evidence to equitably affect hypotheses and it does not require infinite sample sets for confirmation or disconfirmation.
- 10. A problem arises when one encounters evidence that ____ a hypothesis: while no scientist would argue that one piece of evidence proves a hypothesis, it is possible for one piece of evidence to _____ a hypothesis.
- 12. It is _____, for example, whether a hypothesis can actually be confirmed by evidence.
- 14. How is this passage ____?
Down
- 1. ____ show that Egyptians were involved in grape and wine production.
- 3. This method of confirming hypotheses is poth ____ and controversial, but it allows for evidence to equitably affect hypotheses and it does not require infinite sample sets for confirmation or disconfirmation.
- 4. She was unconscious for days and suffered from seizures for the rest of her life.
- 6. Most scientists agree that while the scientific method is an invaluable _____ tool, it is not a failsafe method for arriving at objective truth.
- 8. William Wolfskill, founder of California's citrus industry, planted the first table grape ____ in 1839 near Los Angeles.
- 9. It is debatable, for example, whether a ____ can actually be confirmed by evidence.
- 11. She later became a leader in the ____ movement, and during the Civil War she was a spy for the federal forces in South Carolina as well as a nurse.
- 13. William Wolfskill is credited with ____ hieroglyphics about grape and wine production.