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Frank Kogan ([personal profile] koganbot) wrote 2012-12-03 05:31 pm (UTC)

But to keep this going as a quiz, rather than turning it into a lecture, here are phrases to look at:

(1) "tend to share basic assumptions about their subject" - the word "tend": do they need to share some basic assumptions or all basic assumptions? what's an example of a basic assumption? are there crucial assumptions that don't seem similar to that one (e.g., Bayes's theorem can be basic; what a "fruit" is can be basic; but theorems don't seem much like fruit)? What does sharing a basic assumption do for you? Do you need to share anything else? "Broadly accepted"?

(2) "at any given time" - like, really?

(3) "Particular field" and "social scientists"; is social science a particular field?

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