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Only had a couple minutes to try this but I'm already confused by a couple things. - "UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE" I guess this is a joke but I don't really get it, just seems like a weird thing to have there. - In the first popup, the "audio transmission" is significantly different than the printed text. - "The Earth is a sphere." - this is not true, I think it should be classified as a hypothesis - "Th…
Only had a couple minutes to try this but I'm already confused by a couple things. - "UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE" I guess this is a joke but I don't really get it, just seems like a weird thing to have there. - In the first popup, the "audio transmission" is significantly different than the printed text. - "The Earth is a sphere." - this is not true, I think it should be classified as a hypothesis - "Th…
Sure, with instruments you can measure it and find that it deviates from a perfect sphere. But every object that is made of atoms multiple atoms is not a perfect sphere.
Only had a couple minutes to try this but I'm already confused by a couple things. - "UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE" I guess this is a joke but I don't really get it, just seems like a weird thing to have there. - In the first popup, the "audio transmission" is significantly different than the printed text. - "The Earth is a sphere." - this is not true, I think it should be classified as a hypothesis - "Th…
There are photos of the Earth taken from the neighborhood of the Moon. They show something that is indistinguishable from a sphere to the naked eye. Sure, with instruments you can measure it and find that it deviates from a perfect sphere. But every object that is made of atoms multiple atoms is not a perfect sphere.
I just think it shouldn't be used as a canonical example of a fact when you'll probably learn at some point that it technically isn't true.
specifically I got hit with "chimpanzees and humans have common ancestor" (or something like that)
definition for a "fact" (supposed correct answer) given on the page ("A basic statement established by experiment or observation. True under specific conditions.") seems to me akin to "direct result of some experiment"
meanwhile, determining common ancestry - in my mind - took a lot of work, comparing anatomy, digging out bones and stuff... all the correlation, all the composition
surely it's more of a theory that's supported by many facts?
>Math But the first exercise is about judging statements based on nebulous definitions, definitely unrelated to mathematics?
Mathematics is concerned with a lot more than arithmetic and computation. Beyond the most basic levels, a mathematician will profit greatly from being aware of this type of epistemological vocabulary and a strong sense of their underlying meaning. Whether reading or writing mathematics, we're constantly dealing with propositions, and correctly taxonomising those propositions can really help keep your mental workspace…
> and correctly taxonomising those propositions
The correct taxonomy for a proposition is true/false and proven/unproven.
I can not even fathom a mathematical model where distinguishing a "law" from a "fact" is meaningful.
And the idea of defining a "fact" as something empirically demonstrated is just ridiculous, I totally reject it.
Only had a couple minutes to try this but I'm already confused by a couple things. - "UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE" I guess this is a joke but I don't really get it, just seems like a weird thing to have there. - In the first popup, the "audio transmission" is significantly different than the printed text. - "The Earth is a sphere." - this is not true, I think it should be classified as a hypothesis - "Th…
I do agree much of the categorisation is baffling (I could nitpick several others). In that respect it's a shame to start off with that lesson when some of the others are so much more relevant to the mission concept, interesting and less debatable
"The Earth is a sphere" -> nope
"Water freezes at 32F" -> depends
"Apes and Humans share a common ancestor" -> not a fact, although an extremely likely theory. The site's definition about fact mentions observability. I'd accept "Ape and Humans share 99.x% of DNA, indicating common ancestry" as a fact
Only had a couple minutes to try this but I'm already confused by a couple things. - "UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE" I guess this is a joke but I don't really get it, just seems like a weird thing to have there. - In the first popup, the "audio transmission" is significantly different than the printed text. - "The Earth is a sphere." - this is not true, I think it should be classified as a hypothesis - "Th…
Looks like NASA is to blame for these https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/2page23.pdf I do agree much of the categorisation is baffling (I could nitpick several others). In that respect it's a shame to start off with that lesson when some of the others are so much more relevant to the mission concept, interesting and less debatable
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Mathematics is concerned with a lot more than arithmetic and computation. Beyond the most basic levels, a mathematician will profit greatly from being aware of this type of epistemological vocabulary and a strong sense of their underlying meaning. Whether reading or writing mathematics, we're constantly dealing with propositions, and correctly taxonomising those propositions can really help keep your mental workspace…
To be honest I do not think that these word games are helpful at all. Throughout all of my mathematical education what has always helped me to keep my "mental workspace clean", was to never abandon the model. > and correctly taxonomising those propositions The correct taxonomy for a proposition is true/false and proven/unproven. I can not even fathom a mathematical model where distinguishing a "law" from a "fact" is…
Put another way, decidability is a large area of mathematical research.
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Looks like NASA is to blame for these https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/2page23.pdf I do agree much of the categorisation is baffling (I could nitpick several others). In that respect it's a shame to start off with that lesson when some of the others are so much more relevant to the mission concept, interesting and less debatable
Thanks, I tried to find that original source but wasn't able to.
Actually very nicely designed, but the pedant in me is screaming "you can't just expect the other 3 solar panels to have the same number of dead zones" and I can't find the source either...