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    currency. Journalist Nathaniel Popper compiles the stories behind the rise of bitcoins into a timeline. By telling these stories it provides a more in depth look into the various motives and intentions of those who supported bitcoin. Bitcoin attention has been mainly due to two of the most significant benefits, the extreme amounts of

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    ignores the mom after she asks if the popcorn popper is off, when she asks for soda and her mom says no, and when she talks about the school nurse and a puberty movie. If the narrator was an adult and spending time with mom, all of these situations would have been handled differently. "Did you unplug the popper?" The mom will ask. The narrator pretends not to hear her. When the mom says "you'd better check" the narrator groans and runs to go unplug the popper. This behavior is childish because the narrator

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    observation of particular instances (Induction). Despite their reasoning’s, philosophers such as Hume and Popper have publicly voiced their disagreement and concerns with induction. Hume’s concern with casual connection and the uncertainty of something when individual has not personally experienced that given experience has lead me to contemplate the arguments brought forward by both Hume and Popper and in the end side with the both of them and disagree with induction. What is Induction? Induction

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    and a sequence of logic that is supposed to explain an occurrence and/or occurrences. Einstein’s theory of gravitation perfectly fulfills Popper’s falsifiability criteria of science. Popper uses Einstein’s theory because of the great risk in proposing this theory compiled with the probability of refutation. Popper proposed seven conclusions on his criterion of falsifiability. The first conclusion asks how easily a theory can acquire confirmations. Second, acquired confirmations should only be considered

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    methods currently in use. No scientific theory is ratified without serious consideration and careful observation. Science is the pursuit of what can be proven false and the resulting assumptions of what must be true. The problem that plagues Sir Popper is the clear definition of science and pseudoscience. Though the empirical method is common to both, the level of inferential data varies greatly. One can amass large amounts of data by observing human behavior, but data alone is not the stuff of

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    Dymphna’s. After being set free, Aila and her friends steal Popper’s money. They free Joseph, whom Popper took into custody (Carleton). Popper finds Joseph and Aila, interrupting Joseph telling Aila about how residential school damaged her mom, he knocks Joseph unconscious with his rifle, then beats Aila and tries to rape her. Popper is interrupted by a young boy and shot with his own rifle. Joseph takes responsibility for Popper’s death, saving Aila and the boy from

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    that competing theories or successive theories are often about the same things. According to realists scientists attempt to provide theories which better explain the behaviour of the same kinds of things already referred to by earlier theories. Karl Popper can be viewed as a realist as

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    are those of Rudolph Carnap and Karl Popper. Carnap proposes that theories be declared scientific based on whether they can be tested, at least in principle, and labels this his verification criteria. Popper’s method is based on whether a theory has empirical content which is the set of all possible excluded events proposed by a theory. The question is, is it possible to agree with both of these criteria? This

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    one (77). Karl Popper, born in 1902, presents objections against Kuhn’s normal and revolutionary science arguments, and following I will explain these objections, Kuhn’s replies, and reveal the most important of them all. Popper thought that science was characterized by permanent openness, however Kuhn disagreed. He thinks that it is false for science to exhibit a permanent openness to the testing of fundamental ideas and that science would be worse off should this occur (78). Popper makes another

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    Karl Popper and Declan Butler’s Perspectives Relating to Usage of Anticoagulants Atrial Fibrillation, a heart condition that causes irregular beating, can result in blood clots. A possible treatment seemed to be through anticoagulation, which would thin the blood and decrease the likelihood of blood clots. “Bad medicine: Atrial fibrillation”, published in the British Medical Journal, discusses how medicine can become reactive rather than proactive as it states, “if the anticoagulation numbers are

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