Make knowledge claims that cannot be disproved e.g. religion. When challenged, they reject the evidence.
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Card 7
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What is evan-pritchards study that supports Hortons idea of self-reinforcing, closed belief system.
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Who argues that belief systems have three devices to sustain themselves in the face of contradictory evidence?
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What are Polyani's three devices?
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Who argues that science is a closed belief system?
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What does Kuhn call the shares assumptions scientists use to tell them what reality is like and what and how to study?
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What happens if a scientist challenges the fundamental assumptions of Paradigm?
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What do interpretative argue that all scientific knowledge is? The reason they believe science is not objective truth.
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Who argues that what scientists study in the lab is highly constructed and far removed from the natural world? She argues this is because of the invention of new instruments that permits scientists to fabricate new facts.
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Who is the ethnomethodologist that believes that when confronted with evidence from observations and experiments, scientists have to decide what it means and have to persuade others of their interpretation.
