Cuyamaca College Science Dialogue Essay

Imagine Deb and Alice meet again. Imagine, both have read/learn the same information you have read in this unit

Create a new dialogue between them about what they (you) have learned.Each of them has to participate in the dialog for at least five times with something else than a yes/no answer)and the dialogue should incorporateconcepts covered in this unit such as empiricism, realism, falsificationism, paradigm, etc..

Skeptical Dialogue
I am basing my dialogue off of Deb and Alice just finishing science class, and the
teacher has them discuss in partners things that they found interesting.
1. Deb: Hi Alice, that was such an interesting unit! One of the most intriguing points
was Karl Popper discussed pseudo-sciences. I love astrology so thinking it is not
an actual science is so weird, makes me wonder what category it falls under!?
2. Alice: Yes, I loved it! However, Karl included Falsification, which reveals scientific
predictions that can physically be tested. Pseudosciences are not capable of
being tested, most are opinionated based.
3. Deb: Yeah, but also his theory states “scientific theories can never be proven
true.” Which falls under everything in the universe is always changing.
4. Alice: True, true. Is science deductive or inductive?
5. Deb: From our professors discussion, it is actually considered to be both.
Deductive meaning it follows a specific conclusion with a general theory.
Inductive is a little bit different. Its specific conclusions who draws together a
general conclusion.
6. Alice: An example would be the great Charles Darwin. He didn’t have an initial
theory and results in his theory to be inductive. His theory is developed from an
accumulation of data.
7. Deb: Ultimately all our theories need to be proved and have support for evidence
to make them true. Jumping back to Popper he also mentioned “potential
falsifier” which is a prediction is proved to be wrong would be enough evidence to
reject the theory in a whole. Shows you just how important the scientific method
is!
8. Alice: I agree, do you remember what is the latin root for science?
9. Deb: It means knowledge, which empiricism is all about! Theory in which
experience causes knowledge. That has to be my favorite part of this whole unit.
Anyways, great talk Alice. You know a lot about this unit and I’m sure you’ll ace
the test:
10. Alice: Thanks. Also good work on your part. Keep up the work, and trying new
experiences tom widen that sense of knowledge.