Do We Have to Think Scientifically in order to find the trut

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Topic: Do we have to learn to think scientifically in order to find the truth?

First we have to understand that there are different truths: personal, relative and absolute. The absolute Truth is the truth that different societies accepts, whereas personal truth depends on one individual only and what is truth for them. The relative truth is very dependent on the subject, argument, people who have different ideas.

So what does 'thinking scientifically' means? It is a process of questioning that generate new hypotheses, new experiments. Firstly there is the question that comes with hypothesis ( this is the prediction of what might happen) that is then testified by observations, experiments. If at least once the hypothesis proves to be wrong then it will be falsify. According to Popper first scientists use intuition to create ahead of facts, to frame hypotheses. Then these hypotheses tested "DEDUCTIVELY"(hypothesis is taken for the moment as truth). In the end we cannot be sure is what we proven correct because of the uncertainty inherent in induction, but they can be falsified. Scientists only accept those statements that haven't been falsified yet. Example of scientific truth that was later shown to be incorrect is take

Art is another example where personal truth figures in. Someone looking at the picture of Cubism may not understand it whereas other person would see that it is the language of shapes and that author tried to show trough this picture the reality/truth. One of such examples could be famous picture of Picasso "Les Demoiselles". Maybe there is truth under those shapes but maybe our mind tries to create truth of nothing. I remember once seeing a boy drawing his house. It was just a paper all covered in pink watercolor. There wasn't any mining in it for me but for the boy, for his imaginative brain he could see it. So maybe it is like this in all the art, we see what is not important and do not what is the main point in that art. From this perceptional truth follows. "We tend to assume that reality is the same for everybody, Synesthesia shows us that it isn't. People all around us may have a very different experience of the world"- says NIH researcher Peter Grossenbacher#. The example of man who saw things differently from what we expect, he couldn't see faces of people, so the visual truth can also vary. In our TOK class we did an experiment. We had to write down the following sentence 'Paris in the the spring' that was shown to us for couple of seconds. I didn't recognize that there were two 'the'. Therefore I wrote down what I expected to see and not what I actually did see, so experience may give us 'wrong' knowledge consequently the 'wrong' truth. Scientists base lab works on observations through senses. But if they see what they want to see how could that be truth? How curtain can they be of what they find? Here comes the example of cartography. "The map is not the territory"#. On map you may not see the secret FBI building but it may be standing somewhere and not put on any map at all.

Another example would be the definitions for a 'freedom fighter' and 'terrorist'. They both kill people but one considered as being right whereas the others are wrong and evil. But the actual meaning and actions they take are similar.

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