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The nature of science — knowledge, observation, inquiry and evidence

What kind of knowledge science is and how it is built — observation against inference, hypothesis and prediction, the controlled experiment and its variables, what counts as evidence, and why scientific knowledge is durable and revisable at the same time.

This part of the syllabus has not been confirmed against a current official notification yet, so treat it as provisional.

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