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Quiz 2- Essay
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watered daily while the other one, cup B, is kept in a dark room and isnt
watered at all. The general truth is plants need both sunlight and water to
grow. And through the mongo seeds experiment, after two weeks or so
we are able to verify this truth seeing that cup A will sprout and cup B will
be as its first day state. The activities done to cup A was in line with the
truth about plants needing sunlight and water, and so yielding the desired
outcome while cup B did not.
Take the meaning of a word commonly associated with sciencediscovery as in scientific discoveries. It means finding out or
ascertaining something previously unknown or unrecognized and science
discovers. Therefore even before science studies about certain
phenomena, as the meaning of the word implies and suggests the reason
for that being and truth about it existed already. It was through science
then that it was recognized, known and became subjects of further
studies. Which is another reason why we cannot say that science gives us
the truth.
Science does not produce the truth through its methods. Instead,
these scientific ways are tools that help us verify and discover what the
unknown truth is out there to make them known to us.
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