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WorksheetsRodger Bacon and William of Ockham
Total questions: 6
Worksheet time: 6mins
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
