"dogmatists" - 1 õppematerjal

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observation ­ not the other way round like it is often believed - people can't observe before having a hypothesis ­ they simply do not know what they should be observing or what regularities they should be looking for - Dogmatic behaviour: expect and try to find regularities even if they are not there. Events that falsify the theory are treated as "background noise" - Critical attitude: trying to falsify a theory made up by dogmatists. It needs dogmatic theories as its raw material. Makes theories struggle for the survival of the fittest. - Dogmatic behaviour related to pseudo-science - Critical attitude related to science - Therefore, science begins with myths, which are then critically tested ­ trial and error Kuhn - Agrees with Popper that in "normal science" theories are rarely discarded even when the observations do not agree with it