“In knowledge there is always a trade-off between accuracy and simplicity.” Evaluate this statement in relation to two areas of knowledge. Candidate Name: Akpotohwo Onyekachi Temiloluwa Centre Number: 003295 Candidate Number: 0003 Word Count: 1521 Knowledge is a body of justified truths. It could be simple – plain and easy to comprehend – and/or accurate – correct, precise and certain. So when I encountered the statement “In knowledge, there is always a trade-off between simplicity and accuracy”, my initial thoughts were, definitely, there is a trade-off between simplicity and accuracy. Then again, I thought, it may be true that there is a trade-off between simplicity and accuracy, but is this usually the case all the time? The use of …show more content…
A model is a simplified representation of knowledge. Models use simplification and representation to enhance ease of understanding; they can help individuals gain knowledge, hence, we use models to make schedules, predict the weather, the future population, the economic situation of a country, and even the shape of something we have not seen (shapes and bond angles of covalent molecules). Models definitely play a vital role in our daily lives from waking up in the morning to knowing if you need an umbrella from the daily forecast down to knowing which books to take to school from your timetable. The most significant issue remains to what extent are models an accurate representation of reality? Basically, I will be exploring the accuracy of simplicity in the areas of natural and human sciences, with focus on the use of language and …show more content…
Simplification reduces and changes meaning by narrowing the scope of a knower thus altering understanding. In the process of simplification, we end up excluding valuable information. In O Levels, we were conditioned to think that electrons had fixed positions in their respective atoms because we were given a simple model of an atom. But as higher level students, at the verge of entry into the university, we now know that electrons don’t actually have fixed positions in an atom, they move because they are wave-like and one can only predict approximately, the position of an electron in an atom after applying various theories. In this example, we see that the simple model of an atom excluded vital information that could widen our scope of understanding of the concept of sub-atomic particles. Some people believe that the ultimate goal of science is to discover a theory so general that it gives a complete understanding of nature, the theory of everything. As far as we know, science has been able to conclude on two theories that can explain almost any natural concept; the theory of general relativity and the quantum field theory. However, Gödel’s incompleteness theorem suggests that proposing a theory of everything could be a fatal failure because such a theory, explained in a language rich enough to express elementary facts about natural concepts, cannot be proved to be free
1. Prior to this week’s assigned reading my understanding of nature was one that is ever expanding, with atoms at the core. Being science and mathematics nearly always come hand in hand, I related math to be an essential matter as well. Through our reading I found connections through Heraclitus, as he understood our world as one of fire “meaning there is always” change and flux. Condensing the entire world into one substance is quite brave as the world as we know and understand is composed of many elements and substances.
The stating of the words “precise, rational, reliable, true” without conjunctions emphasizes each word’s importance for Richard. He views math as something with a correct and true answer, something
The film Precious Knowledge is from the perspective of a group of students at Tuscan High School in Arizona. The school system wanted to increase graduation rates and was looking at different ways to do this. The school came to the conclusion that a Mexican- American studies class will increase the dropout rate from 48 percent. This class taught students about Mexican-American history and culture with a curriculum that can be related to social justice while thinking critically and socially conscious. The Governor of Arizona started to protest this class because of the books they were reading and some of the material that was being taught was considered to be promoting the overthrow of the US Government.
We may never know the answer to these questions, we are to decide for ourselves what they mean. That was one of the main points of The Theory Toolbox. The answers aren 't always available and when that 's the case, we need to decide for
Barry uses this to show how researchers must make decisions on how to do something while not having a very structured knowledge foundation for that specific topic of interest. Together, the uses of these similar structures allows for a more cohesive train of thought about the characteristics of scientific
Mark Andrew Twitchell, a movie director lured Johnny Brain Altinger into his garage and killed him while imitating Dexter, a television character. Twitchell idolizes Dexter, which is a frictional character from the television show with the same name. Dexter works for the police department in Miami while also being a serial killer. Twitchell made a film which was about “luring a male from a dating internet site and basically killing the male in the garage and chopping his body parts and getting ride of the body”().
The search for knowledge is arduous, to utilize knowledge wisely can be blessings, but
In Pursuit of Knowledge Ignorance is bliss, which means people that choose not to know live happier not knowing the truths and dangers the world holds. People who have knowledge and know what is going on in the world can choose to fix the problems most of us fear but they always tend to overthink things and live a safer, more reserved life because they know the outcome. Knowledge must be pursued at all costs, even when it is far more convenient to stay ignorant.
“When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it.” It’s not enough to know one, or even two of these points unless we know all three we shall be unable to arouse the other emotions. - Aristotle, and George Alexander Kennedy The Maltese Falcon written by Dashiell Hammett is a great example of Aristotelian logic’s argumentative style: ethos, pathos, deduction and even induction. Sam Spade used inductive and deductive reasoning and did it in more of an ethos style.
A theory is defined as an explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a compilation of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. Theory is not scientific law, which is a natural phenomenon that has been proven as absolute truth. However, in the public-school setting, evolution, a theory concerning the Earth’s origins, is established as an indisputable fact allowing no room for other theories, specifically creationism, to be taught. These two battling theories uphold two opposing perspectives that attempt to explain the creation and development of life.
Karl Popper was a twentieth-century philosopher that had a dissatisfaction with the definition of what could be considered a “science.” The claim of falsification, being able to equally be observed false, made Popper’s argument of demarcation appealing to those with the same inquiries about the method of scientific progress. Popper said to be defined as a real science, one needs to make risky, bold predictions that could easily be refuted by observation. I will argue that the construction of Popper’s scientific progress is flawed due to the refutations of infinite hypotheses and observational unreliability.
I argue that while mechanistic and teleological explanations are distinctly different, both are required in order to thoroughly explain a phenomenon. In this essay, I will describe mechanistic, atomistic, and teleological explanations, highlight their key differences, and then explain why one cannot completely understand a phenomenon without incorporating a teleological component. A mechanistic explanation is one that describes “how” a phenomenon (such as breathing, growing, or eating) occurs. It conveys the physiological, or physical, movements and changes involved in that phenomenon.
With each new discovery, our prior knowledge is either being further proved or disputed. Robust knowledge refers to knowledge claims that have withstood these constant challenges and have not been disproven, despite any attempts to disprove it. However, the claim that “robust knowledge requires both consensus and disagreement” is justifiably false to me, in certain areas of knowledge. I believe that this claim is entirely false in the mathematics area of knowledge but can be true in the natural sciences area of knowledge. The reason for my belief is that the claim explicitly states that “Robust knowledge requires both consensus and disagreement”.
Because of this fact, knowledge can be seen as a vital quality to