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According to the "Constructivism perspective" of this course:
(a) Scientists discover empirical patterns and then discover why interacting things or events produce the empirical patterns
(b) Scintists discover empirical patterns and then create abstract logical, conceptual models to represent the empirical patterns |
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According to the "constructivism perspective" of this course:
(a) A scientific theory is a true representations of some order in nature
(b) A scientific theory is the only valid representation of some order in nature
(c) A scientific theory is only one of many different possible valid representations of order in nature |
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According to the "constructivism perspective" of this course,
(a) A well established theory such as the biological theory of evolution, should be taught as merely one possible theoretical description of an empirical pattern in nature |
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According to the hierarchal scientific constructivism
(a) Einstein's mechanistic theories (his theories of relativity) totally replace Newtonian mechanistic theories
(b) Newtonian mechanistic theories include Einstein's mechanistic theories
(c) Einstein's mechanistic theories can be reduced to Netwonian mechanistic theories |
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The classical version of the second law of thermodynamics
(a) Supports any mechanistic ideology as a completely adequate description of nature
(b) Rejects any mechanistic ideology as a completely adequate description of nature |
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Describing the operation of any machine as the collaboration of Eros-chaos and Eros-order
(a) Is a mechanistic description
(b) Is a totally objective description
(c) Involves a narrative description that uses metaphorical, conceptual understanding of Eros-chaos and Eros-order
(d) Both a and b are true
(e) All three a,b, and c are true |
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According to hierarchal, scientific constructivism,
(a) Einstein's special theory of relativity via a scientific revolution totally replaces Newton's theory of motion
(b) Einstein's special theory of relativity implies Newton's theory of motion, but Newton's theory does not imply Einstein's theory |
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The operation of any machine may be described as
(a) The order of the machine is totally converted into the order of the machine task
(b) The order of a potential in nature is totally converted into an order in the machine that then is totally converted into the order of the machine task
(c) The machine collaborates with the destruction of a particular order in nature to produce a particular order of the machine task |
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According to a hierarchal mutuality of chaos and machine creativity:
(a) A particular order in nature (a potential) implies a particular order of the machine task
(b) A particular order of the machine task implies that there must have been an order (a potential) in nature to generate it
(c) Both a and b are true |
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According to narrative, scientific constructivism,
(a)Narrative, scientific constructivism implies, that is, includes, scientific constructivism
(b) For practical reasons, a person can reduce his/her narrative, scientific constructivism understanding to a scientific constructivism understanding
(c) Narrative, scientific constructivism involves subjective understanding of metaphorical concepts
(d) Both a and b are true
(e) All three a, b, and c |
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Any mechanistic or machine understanding of nature is at best
(a) An external, narrative scientific constructivism understanding
(b) An internal, narrative, scientific constructivism understanding |
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Internal, narrative, scientific constructivism implies the internalization of information that leads to the transformation of the old system's "self" into a new system's "self"
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Those scientists committed oto a totally mechanistic description of nature have an understanding of nature that denies the truth or validity of the theory of evolution
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Just as one can mathematically describe action at a distance of the force of gravity but not understand how it can occur, so also one can mathematically describe a system's self transforming itself but not understand how self-transformation can occur
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(b) False |
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One way of avoiding the paradox of system's self-transformation is by rejecting narrative, constructivism as a necessary complement to scientific constructivism
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The paradox of system's "self" transformation is analogous to American democracy seen as an "oxymoron" which is a paradox represented by the question: "How can a society remain stablewhen it is made up of several communities each committed to a dogmatic religion or philosophy that contradicts all the others?"
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