Chapter five provides many elements of a discipline. These include: phenomena-the subjects, objects, and behaviors, epistemology-the study of nature and basis of knowledge, assumption- things that are accepted as true and or certain, concepts- abstract ideas that are generalized, theory- is a generalized scholarly explanation about some aspect, methods- procedures or techniques used by a discipline’s practitioners to conduct, organize, and present research, data-which is observed. These bring so much to one’s primary disciplinary of studies. Phenomena being the subjects, objects, and behaviors that a discipline considers to fall within its research area. For example in Biology, the nature, interrelationships, and evolution of living organisms, …show more content…
It answers many questions for example: what is the nature of knowledge, how can I know what I know, and what is truth? Repoke says that each discipline’s epistemology has its own way of knowing the part of reality that it considers within its research domain. Empiricism, is the ruling of ideology of science which assures us that the observation and experimentation make scientific clarifications reliable and the predictive of the power of its theories ever are increasing. Biology stresses some values of classification and experimental control. Philosophy of biology is continuously motivated in shifting its own methods and consideration. While natural scientist embrace the notion of nature and knowledge are mechanistic, that knowledge is unbiased and replicable, that the information is acquired by the scientific method which will demonstrate, the relationship between cause and effect, which allows for …show more content…
The scientific method is a term that can be understood basically in two ways, one is, experiments are done in controlled laboratories, or a way of knowing that can embrace all the scientific methods. The scientific method has six steps which include; make an observation, ask a question, form a hypothesis, and conduct an experiment, analyze the data, and draw a conclusion.
Data is the definition which is observed and there is three board categories of data that can be observed: inanimate objects; living things, including people; and events or interactions among people and objects. In the natural science world this is implemented in many forms, for example: biological data might contain some of the following: classifications; sequence data, such as those connected with the DNA of numerous species, have developed enormously with the expansion of automated sequencing