Scientific Thinking

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A scientific fact is a hypothesis that has been tested and proven right

Scientists were the ones to bring the practice of critical thinking to the attention and use of modern society

Scientific Thinking & the Scientific Method

Critical/Scientific Thinking

Three components

Skepticism

Being Skeptical

questioning your beliefs and conclusions

Rationalism

Practicing Logical Reasoning

Empiricism

Using Empirical Evidence

Evidence seen, heard, touched, tastde,smelled

Thinking correctly which successfully leads to the most reliable answers to questions

Scientific Method in Practice

6. Construct, support or doubt a scientific theory

5. Testing Results

If it passes the test then it is kept; called Corroborated Hypothesis

If it fails the test, it must be rejected or modified.

4. Test the hypothesis

b) By making further observations

a) By experimenting

3. Formulate a Hypothesis

Proposed solution to the problem

2. Collect relevant information to answer the question

1. Ask a meaningful question/identify a significant problem

Science

Reliable knowledge: one with a high probablility of truth as it is justified by a method

method of investigating nature to discover reliable knowledge about it