Unit 1 Lesson 3

This is a 5-question quiz to refresh your knowledge of forms of meaningful doubt. You will be given statements of essential limitations, of “weak spots” of knowledge in various areas of knowledge. For each of the statement, your task is to decide which area of knowledge it is typical to.

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Axiomatic statements upon which all other statements are based are themselves not proven. They are taken for granted.

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• Human Sciences

• Mathematics

• The Arts

• History

Knowledge claims are based on experimental data, but this data is always incomplete. Therefore, a “law” is always a generalization based on incomplete evidence.

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• Mathematics

• The Arts

• History

There are so many different factors that may be important that controlling them all in an experiment is impossible. For this reason, there can always be several alternative explanations of experimental results.

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• The Arts

• History

There is a lot of evidence to choose from, and this raises the question of which parts of the evidence to choose and which parts to ignore. Additionally, evidence is always incomplete so we must fill in the gaps using our interpretation.

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• Human Sciences

• Mathematics

• The Arts

• History

We are dealing with very subtle matters that can only be known through someone’s subjective interpretation. It is also unclear what exactly counts as “knowledge” in this area.

• Natural Sciences

• Human Sciences

• Mathematics

• The Arts

• History