Common or Practical Knowledge: Also known as vulgar or everyday knowledge, it is inherited culturally, transmitted informally across generations, and applied to solve daily problems without systematic methods. Example: Belief that singing to cows increases milk production.
Scientific Knowledge: Systematic, method-driven understanding obtained through observation, experimentation, and reflection. It aims to explain phenomena with verified, generalizable, and probable truths. Example: The Big Bang theory.
Knowledge as a Relationship: The process involving a subject (knower) perceiving and understanding an object (phenomenon), forming internal representations that are processed and systematized into knowledge.
Characteristics of Science: Traits that define scientific inquiry, including rationality, objectivity, generality, systematization, analysis, clarity, precision, cumulative nature, verifiability, empiricism, and truthfulness.
1. Which characteristic of science refers to the capacity of scientific statements and theories to be tested and confirmed through empirical evidence and experimentation?
2. What is the primary role of research methodology in scientific inquiry?
3. What does scientific knowledge primarily refer to?
Science characteristics — key trait?
Objectivity, rationality, and verifiability.
Research methodology — purpose?
Provides systematic procedures to generate reliable knowledge.
Scientific knowledge — definition?
Systematic understanding obtained through observation and experimentation.
Scientific Knowledge — types?
Vulgar (common) and scientific, different methods.
Science Characteristics — key traits?
Rationality, objectivity, generality, verification.
Research Methodology — purpose?
To systematically investigate phenomena.
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