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The scientific method consists of questions and hypotheses, protocols for testing hypotheses, experimentation, and a system of doubt and criticism through peer review.
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The Scientific Revolution's main idea is the institutionalization of doubt: asking questions, debating, and experimenting are divine because heaven itself models debate.
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The Scientific Revolution's main idea is the institutionalization of doubt: asking questions, debating, and experimenting are divine because heaven itself models debate.
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He argues that Dante makes doubt heavenly and divine: if Dante does not believe Beatrice, she tells him to conduct an experiment.
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Jiang reads Beatrice's mirror experiment as proving that reflected divine light remains equally bright no matter how far it is from the first candle.
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Jiang clarifies that rat utopia is an artificial experiment: in real life rats do not receive free food; in the experiment they are left alone and fed every day.
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"...third step is experimentation, basically, right? So only if you can experiment, only if your hypothesis matches experimental results can it be true."
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"Now last thing is it creates a system of doubt and criticism in order to test all experimental results. And today we call them..."
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"...arguing all the time. It's divine to doubt. It's divine to experiment. All right? Remember, the father of the Second Revolution is Galileo."
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"Where's Galileo from? Florence. Right? So, Galileo grew up immersed in the divine comedy. All right? These things aren't accidental. Okay? Right? All right...."
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"...So, here's what you're going to do. We will do an experiment. Guys, they're in heaven. And they're doing an experiment. Why? Because Dande..."
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"Doubt is heavenly. It's divine. Yet an experiment were you to try it could free you from your cavern. The cavern is all light..."
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"...actually do this at home. Now, what's really fun about this experiment is you can keep on going. This is the first layer, right?..."
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"...your own children. Does that make sense? Yeah. This is an experiment because obviously this would not happen in real life. Okay? There's no..."
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"The rats could do whatever they wanted. The only thing the experimenters did was feed them every day. Okay? If you do that if..."
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"...very simple trick. Okay. And like, so let's do a thought experiment where I design a program software. Okay. Okay. And the thing is,..."
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"...plan is correct or not but let's just do a thought experiment and say what is Americans actually up to and the argument I..."
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"So, so, so, so let's do a thought experiment. Let's just say that Trump visits China in mid -May and the meeting goes really..."
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Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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