PBIO 3650 Lecture 1: Study Notes at UGA
8 Jan 2019
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Plant ecology is a branch of science, so we should first be clear about science. Very difficult to answer philosophers have not arrived at a consistent answer. But a beginning is this statement from the national academy of science: First, science is not the same as common sense. Common sense indicates that the sun does rise and set. Nevertheless, there can be other explanations of that phenomenon, and one of them, the rotation of the earth on its axis, is responsible for day and night. A concept based on observation proved to need extensive modification as new observations accumulated. My wife is the most beautiful girl in the world - peterson. What are the scope and limitations of science? scope of science (what is it concerned with) National academy of science says: in science, explanations are restricted to those that can be inferred from confirmable data the results obtained through observations and experiments.
