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Method: a method is a procedure agreed on by participants of a discussion or research project. In the case of violations of a method, the comparability of the results is in particular questioned, since these no longer come from a set with uniformly defined properties of the elements._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Kim Sterelny on Method - Dictionary of Arguments
I 381 Definition Two Action Test/Method/Experiment/Perspective/Sterelny: Group 1: rats see A: Left lever is pressed. Group 2: rats see B: right lever is pressed. 1. This allows solutions with more than one behavioral program. A task can be divided into sub-tasks. 2. There must be different but equally appropriate ways of doing the sub-tasks. E.g. a chimpanzee can do something with the feet just as well as with the hands. If it now changes, then one can say that it executes the behavioral program correctly, but does not exactly imitate the subordinate tasks. >Experiments, >Animals, >Animal language._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Sterelny I Kim Sterelny "Primate Worlds", in: The Evolution of Cognition, C. Heyes/L. Huber (Eds.) Cambridge/MA 2000 In Der Geist der Tiere, D Perler/M. Wild, Frankfurt/M. 2005 Sterelny II Kim Sterelny Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest Cambridge/UK 2007 |