WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NATURAL SCIENCES AND ALL OTHER AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE TO THAT ALL OF THEIR CONCLUSIONS ARE PROVISIONAL? Helen Kahur January 2013 Introduction Karl Raimund Popper‚ an English philosopher was curious about a certain question‚ which was ’’whats the difference between natural science‚ and other areas of knowledge?’’. Popper’s response to that was that scientific claims could technically be disproved‚ whereas non-scientific ones couldn’t. A theory‚ which cannot be disproved
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Niépce History of photography camera obsucra (Leondardo Da Vinci) Photography was not invented earlier then the 1830’s. It started with two distinct scientific processes but not until they were combined together did it make photography possible. The first process was ‘camera obscura’ which is the dark room; the dark room had been in existence for at least four hundred years. There is a drawing of a ‘camera obscura’ (dark room) by Leonardo Da Vinci‚ dated 1915.The second process was chemical‚ this
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What is the difference between WAV and MP3? WAV is sound digitally sampled at a fixed rate and word size‚ e.g. 44 kHz 16-bit. The higher the sampling rate‚ the better high notes like cymbals will be reproduced. The highest frequency that can be encoded is half the sampling frequency. MP3 is a lossy compression format that can get up to 20x compression compared to WAV. The bitrate can be variable or fixed. Unless a low quality compression is selected‚ most people cannot tell the difference
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February 7‚ 2013 BA150 Principals of Business Management “What are the Differences Between Management and Leadership?” Management and leadership are closely related but is not the same thing. They are both necessary and complementary to each other. In the corporate world‚ there are vastly different jobs that require different skills. There are similarities with the two and you can hardly become a great manager without good leadership capabilities. Being a manger does not always mean that
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Tocqueville and Marx both held vigorous beliefs on what the new systems of government and economy of the time could or will inevitable lead to. On one hand Marx saw the history of the world through the lense of class struggle‚ leading to his conclusion that the ever growing capitalist system was no more than another edition to the eternal conflict between the oppressor and the oppressed. “The Modern Bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class
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This practice signifies the relationship each person has with God. The third pillar‚ Zakat‚ is considered one of the most important tenets of Islam. It maintains that all things belong to God‚ and as such human beings are the trustees of such wealth. Zakat is the practice of charity that requires all Muslims who can‚ to contribute a fixed amount to the poor. The fourth
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There is quite a few differences between the book and movie The Outsiders. The book is written by S.E. Hinton. We have been reading the outsiders and we were wondering which was better the movie or the book. The book and movie are both easy to relate to because Ponyboy is our age and most of the characters are young. I think the three characters are Sodapop‚Ponyboy‚and Two bit. In the book I pictured them as these tough looking kids but when I saw the movie they actually don’t look as tough as
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an essay on the following topic: "Discuss cultural differences as they exist in American and Vietnamese culture and suggest some ways to overcome them." CONTENT The difference of culture impacts so much to the way to living‚ the way of thinking and the way of doing business. America and Vietnam have a big difference in culture‚ religion and business. However‚ we live in a world where it is called flat world‚ where there is no restriction between countries. It requires us to integrate in order to
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What is the difference between ecosystem and ecology? Ecosystem is the physical system (an open system) in which the mutual interaction between biotic and aboitic component motored by the energy component is studied. While the Ecology is the science which study the interrelation between Abiotic (inorganic) and Biotic (organic) components as well as the interaction among the biotic component. To make it more clear‚ ecosystem is the fundamental unit of ecological study. Ecology vs Ecosystem
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succeeded in abolishing the tyrannical rule of the kings and became a republic‚ yet she was more of an aristocratic republic. Her power rested more in a particular class than in the whole people (Morey‚ 1901). This difference in political power between the classes subtly boiled over into what would become a plebeian revolt. At first the conflict was based more on the fact that the Patricians were a wealthier class‚ and the Plebeians seeked an equal distribution of wealth (Morey‚ 1901). Due to the fact
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