Rodger Bacon and William of Ockham

Bacon described a repeating cycle of:

• Observation, Experimentation and Hypothesis

• Observation, Experimentation, Verification and Hypothesis

• Observation, Hypothesis and Experimentation

• Observation, Hypothesis, Experimentation and Verification

Bacon's Hierarchy of knowledge consisted of:

• Doctrine, Rationality and Divine Inspiration

• Belief, Knowledge and Experimentation

• Authority, Reason and Experience

• Rules, Religion and God

Bacon Beleived the function of Science was to

• Experimentally support or refute theoretical claims

• Provide methods to assist other sciences

• Investigate the truth within nature

• All of the above

According to Bacon Happiness came from:

• Human practice in relation to God

• Human practice in relation to neighbours

• Humans practice towards themselves

• All of the above

Which of the following is not a criticism of Ockham's Razor:

• The sound logic of Ockham Razor does not guarantee the outcome

• The Razor does not help identify which solution is the simplest

• The Razor suggest that the most parsimonious explanation is likely to be correct

• Modern science suggests that actually complex networks and interaction within those networks creates behaviours. Somethings are not simple!

Ockham's Nominalism could be crudely defined as:

• Everything has a universal essence

• Universal essences are nothing more than creations in the mind

• Everything has two universal essences one that captures similiarites and one that capture individuation

• Everythings is changing so nothing can be known