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Post-Modern Ideal

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Classical modern ideal of science is the older way of thinking about science and technology. This ideal is extremely detailed oriented. That being said, classical modern ideal is explanatory in its method. Being explanatory, research of any type is to answer or question what has no perceivable answer. Kind of like an explorer would go into a new cave and shed the light on what hid in the dark. Explanatory research must use numbers and precision ways to measure and record all data. During the deep sort of research, one must keep in mind that laws must be universal. Something that is found is not true unless shown to be always right in every single situation, it cannot just be true some of the time or for the most part. For example, the angles …show more content…

This ideal does not have the strict standards and universal law classical modern does. Post-modern is more of a descriptive type research. This means experiments and answers to problems do not need a cause and effect answer, rather the situation is observed and recorded. There is not a strict amount of accuracy involved since you are observing the situation and more or less getting a feel for the situation not mathematically proving it. The reason for simply observing rather than mathematically or scientifically proving is because all situations are probable and contingent. Being that all situations are probable and contingent most situations that can be proved mathematically are in ideal situations without any outside influencing factors. An example is this comes from the book Shop Class as Soulcraft, by Matthew Crawford, where Crawford talks about when his dad said it is proven that you can untie a double knot with the tug of one string but, Crawford found this to be only situational it was true depending on how warn the shoelace was, how dirty it was, if it was wet or not, and many other factors. That is why experiments must be observed so one can get a feel for each situation and factors that are variable in every situation. According to post-modern ideal there are a less rigorous and internal end. Being that not …show more content…

The reason trades make you think more than going to college is because trades force you to become an expert in one topic rather than know little about a lot of topics. Also, when in trades there are many outside factors that will influence the situation so you, being the expert in that trade, will have to learn how to read that situation and know the outcomes and how many outcomes are possible with just one specific situation. And the real world has much more than one specific situation so you would have to know how to handle many situations. If you are attending school, you are working with things that are ideal and often there are formulas that help solve ideal situations. An example of how a trade worker needs to know how to diagnose many variables and situations comes from Crawford. Crawford talks about when he was trying to figure out an electrical problem in his old VW his dad said just consider Ohms law. However, Ohms law could not fix the electrical problem it took keen observing to see if electrical points where: wet, dirty, or loose. Depending on what environment the car has been driven threw influences what could be causing the electrical problem. The diagnostic would not be solved from a simple scientific formula but, it took deep thought and past knowledge

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