Presents an approach to the understanding of gas laws using such common phenomena as insect fogging, sea breezes, and hot air balloons. (GS)

RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED TO ESTABLISH THE DEGREE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE THAT IS REQUIRED TO UNDERSTAND SCIENCE ARTICLES IN CURRENT NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES. ALL ARTICLES ABOUT SCIENCE OR REQUIRING SCIENCE FOR INTERPRETATION WERE COLLECTED FOR A 6-MONTH PERIOD FROM NINE MAGAZINES AND 22 NEWSPAPERS. TERMS WERE CATEGORIZED AND RELATED TO THE…

This document presents a discussion and conceptual derivation of Einstein's postulates of special relativity. The perceptron approach appears to be a fundamentally new manner of regarding physical phenomena and it is hoped that physicists will interest themselves in the concept. (Author)

The focus of this paper is on Michael Polanyi, a contemporary scientist and philosopher, and on some general features which are embedded in rhetorical theory's traditional bases and contemporary manifestations and which are seen from Polanyi's vantage point. The author discusses the basic features which undergird rhetorical theories and are…

Rules in this study are limited to linguistic entities which are said to have truth value, to be followable and prescriptive, to have been adopted and remain in force until unadopted, and to be conditional. The concern is with the nominal referential use of rules rather than their verbal use. The book is divided into four sections. The first…

Action research is presented as a method for generating knowledge that corrects the deficiencies of positivist science. Action research is shown to base its scientific legitimacy in philosophical traditions that are different from those that legitimate positivist science. (Author/IRT)

Presents a discussion of three areas of philosophy that serve as foundations for the construction of scientific theory, a critical analysis of the new epistemologies, a logical structure for scientific family therapy theory, and minimum requirements for a scientific theory of family therapy. (Author/ABB)

The author attempts to apply B. F. Skinner's principles of scientific practice to self-directed lifelong learning by way of a personal case history and self-report. (CT)

This book attempts to create a model of the nature of knowledge and its evolution. Scholarly research has been used for this purpose. Chapters include: (1) "The Nature of Knowledge"; (2) "The Nature of Scientific Progress"; (3) "Truth and Falsifiability"; (4) "The Problem with Experimental Observations"; (5) "Scientific Reductionism"; (6) "An…

Describes the importance of the general circulation in the atmosphere and oceans in creating the earth's climates. (AL)

Educational institutions must educate their students to be prepared to face and cope with the many changes that are daily occuring in their world. With the benefit of such an education, they will be able to influence the course of these changes. (CK)