ToK AoK - Natural Sciences

The underlying assumption of science is that the universe has an independent, external reality accessible to human senses and amenable to human reason.

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Language in the natural sciences is narrative in style which is appropriate for the purpose of understanding.

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Both the ideas and the processes of science can only occur in a human context.

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Natural sciences are firmly grounded in the real world and focus on the interactions between individuals, societies and physical processes in both time and space.

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Scientists use a wide variety of methodologies which taken together, make up the process of science. There is no single “scientific method”.

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Some scientific explanations only exist in mathematical form.

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Scientists cannot ever be certain that a result or finding is correct.

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Measurement involves interaction with the world, but this interaction can sometimes change the aspect of the world we are trying to measure.

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A high co-efficient of correlation between quantities would result in a casual law in the natural sciences.

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The natural sciences provides us with the space to see ourselves as rational, free agents with desires and the ability to choose.

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