ABSTRACT REASONING AND AUTHORITY VS. COMMON SENSE IN SCIENCE TEACHING

280 Common Sense Reasoning

Even with powerful numerical computers, exploring complex dynamical systems requires significant human effort and judgment to prepare simulations and to interpret numerical results. This paper describes one-aspect of a computer program, KAM, that can autonomously prepare numerical simulations, and can automatically generate high-level, qualitative interpretations of the quantitative results. Gi...

Metaphor and common-sense reasoning

>Inferenccs based on metaphors appear to play a major role in human common sense reasoning. This paper identifies and analyzes general inference patterns based upon ur Jerlying metaphors, in particular the pervasive balance principle. Strategies for metapnor comprehension are explored, and analogical mapping structures are proposed as a means of representing metaphorical relationships between d...

Common Sense Reasoning in Diagnostic Systems

Scientific and Common Sense Reasoning: A Comparison

An ethnomethodological approach to human activity focuses on how members accomplish some sense of orderly reality through interpretive creation. Moving from a flexible theoretical base made possible by the radical ?poque and its suspension of a given, fixed reality with attendent features such as subject-object dualism, perceptual processing, and iionreciprocal causal sequences, the ethnomethod...

Education by Authority or for Authority? Are Science Teachers Teaching Science?

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