Exercise 4

Exercise 2

Заполните пропуски недостающими по смыслу словами, используя текст:

1. The principles that guide scientific research and experimentation are expressed by the term … ….

2. Philosophy in general is concerned with the why, but science occupies itself with … only, but in a scrupulously rigorous manner.

3. The era of … is generally considered to have begun with the Renaissance.

4. Rudiments of the … … to knowledge can be observed throughout human history.

5. Definitions of scientific method use such concepts as … of approach to and … of the results of scientific study.

6. Objectivity indicates the attempt to observe things … ….

7. Acceptability is judged in terms of the degree to which … and … can be reproduced.

8. By … …, science attempts to develop the broad laws.

9. No single path to discovery exists in ….

10. Galileo formulated the hypothesis that the … attained is directly proportional to the … traversed.

11. The ultimate test of the validity of a scientific hypothesis is its … with the totality of other aspects of the scientific framework.

12. In science every effect is assumed to be … with a cause.

13. The scientific community judges the work of its members by the … with which that work has been conducted.

Exercise 3

Соответствуют ли данные предложения содержанию текста:

1. The principles that guide scientific research and experimentation are denoted by a term “scientific method”.

2. Philosophy in general is concerned with the how of things, science occupies itself with why only.

3. The era of modern science is generally considered to have begun with the Industrial Revolution.

4. Scientific approach to knowledge can be observed after invention of steam engine.

5. Scientific method uses such concept as subjectivity of approach.

6. Subjectivity indicates the attempt to observe things as they are, without falsifying observations.

7. Scientific method also involves inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning.

8. By inductive and deductive reasoning processes, science attempts to develop the broad laws.

9. Separate disciplines of science are similar in terms of subject matter and the possible ways of studying that subject matter.

10. Only a single path to discovery exists in science.

Exercise 4

Используя текст, составьте высказывания с данными словами и выражениями:

Scientific method; scientific research; experimentation; scientific approach; objectivity of approach; acceptability of the results; scientific study; observations and experimentations; inductive reasoning; deductive reasoning; to develop the broad laws; scientific truth; hypothesis; to verify experimentally; scientific framework; prevailing worldview; experimental results; scientific community.

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