BIOM 3210 Study Guide - Final Guide: Stone Age, Exaggeration, Sample Size Determination
13 Aug 2018
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Postmodernism questions, what is your main reaction to the fact that the academic journal social text accepted and published. Sokal & bricmont"s deliberately nonsensical paper: shocking that nobody intervened, where were the peer evaluations, damaging to the students of postmodernism. Inhibits clear and effective communication (others shouldn"t have to guess your meaning: ex. Structure: premises presented must support the conclusion, the conclusion cannot appear as a premise, 2. Relevance: the premise must be related to the conclusion, and not address something else, 3. Acceptability: reasons should be acceptable to a rationally mature person, 4. Sufficiency: reasons should be sufficient in number and weight to support a conclusion, 5. Recognizing faces (overactive mechanism: may have been useful to identify attackers in the past, a dark shadow in the bushes may be a predator; it is better to misrecognize than to ignore, ex. Post hoc fallacy commitment: may have been useful because it could be true, ex.
