Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: |
Two conceptions of science embody two different valuations of scientific life and of the purpose of scientific enquiry. |
According to the first conception, science is above all else an imaginative and exploratory activity and the scientist is a person who takes part in a great intellectual adventure. |
The alternative conception suggests that science is above all else a critical and analytical activity and the scientist is pre-eminently a person who requires evidence before he or she delivers an Where the truth resides according to second conception opinion, and when it comes to evidence is hard to please. |
In the first conception, truth takes shape in the mind of the observer: it is his imaginative grasp of what might be true that provides the incentive for finding out, so far as he can, what is true. |
This view point is supported by other scholars of science. For instance, Greenwald, argued: "One's preliminary hypotheses have a decided advantage in the judgment process.? |
According to the second conception, truth resides I in nature and is to be got at only through the evidence of the senses: apprehension leads by a direct pathway to comprehension, and the scientist's task is essentially one of discernment. |
Who is a scientist as per the first conception? |
A) A person who takes part in a rational quest
B) A person who takes part in an intellectual adventure
C) A person who takes part in an illogical quest
D) All of these
E) None of these
Correct Answer: B
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