Estudiante

Student: Nicole Levites
I.D: 000792694

Fundamentals of Humanistic Thoughts II

Midterm assignment

May 15, 2012Dr. Eran Guter
TA: Mr. Ory Rotlevy1. What were the main characteristics of modern science as it emerged during the scientific revolution in early modern Europe (1550-1700)? How do these characteristicsyield the problem of induction?

2. What is Popper’s criterion of falsifiability? What is the nature of the problem, which this
Criterion was designed to resolve? Explain the problem.As the scientific revolution between the years of 1550-1700 brought upon a profusion of scientific discovery on various fields such as astronomy, chemistry, biology, physics upon others, it alsobrought upon several reforms. One of the main characteristic and developments of the revolution laid on the shift from deductive science to inductive reasoning; a shift which served the purpose ofexpanding knowledge by branching out from the shadow of the church and its premises and moving onto a more uncontrolled and free position form religious and political oppression.
As such institutions losttheir importance and the mind gained more, the explanations that once were mediated by theological understanding changed unto a more structured and logic argument relying on systematic observations. Asthis empiricism system arose so did the problem with inductive reasoning, since such method was a way to inference form particular observations to a general rule, or in other words to generalize abehavior or an event and acquire a conclusion of it by a limited number of previous experiences or observations of the law. The problem with such subject consisted primarily on the modus, as the...