EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

EDUCATION UGC NET

CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is called the father of both Realism and the scientific method?
A
Plato
B
Aristotle
C
Socrates
D
Edward Thorndike
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642, father of scientific method.

Detailed explanation-2: -In all textbooks of the western world, the Italian physicist Galileo Galilee ( 1564–1642) is presented as the father of this scientific method.

Detailed explanation-3: -Aristotle’s inductive-deductive method used inductions from observations to infer general principles, deductions from those principles to check against further observations, and more cycles of induction and deduction to continue the advance of knowledge.

Detailed explanation-4: -Logic. With the Prior Analytics, Aristotle is credited with the earliest study of formal logic, and his conception of it was the dominant form of Western logic until 19th-century advances in mathematical logic.

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