Questions by Ranjana

Q.1 What is inhuman and how can we define human and inhuman philosophically? Q.2 Where is mind - inside body or outside body. Give justification for your answer. Q.3 Why science should be taught? what should be the mode of teaching. Q.4 What are direct observations and how they are observed. Q.5 What is observation for a lay man and for an insane. Q.6 How human categorise things, relations and world. Q.7 "There cannot be any direct connection between the observations we make about the world and the generalizations (laws and theories) of science" Comment.

Q1. Falsification is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for a theory to be considered Scientific. Comment.

Q2. What is the difference between Ad hoc elements introduced in a scientific theory and that in a pseudo scientific theory.

Q3. What is the significance of experiments involving Control to justify a theory as being scientific.

Q4. There is no principled way to call any set of sentences in a language analytic as opposed to synthetic, how does Quine argue for this position.

Q5. If science is based on observation isn't any theory involved in these observations themselves? or

Can scientific hypothesis be ever proved true by the data?

Q6. What criteria determines which competing hypotheses gives the best explanation of data? or

Is knowledge of the universe parsimonious?

Q7. Is science inductive or non-inductive?

Q8. Is philosophy practical?

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