(#1-#50) EPISTEMOLOGICAL TESTS EPISTEMOLOGY is THE STUDY OF WHAT WE KNOW, in contrast with ONTOLOGY, THE STUDY OF WHAT IS REAL. Every STUDENT and ADULT should often be so tested. (Note items 22-3, below.) What is the EPISTEMOLOGICAL state of each referent? a concretion or abstraction or illation (inference)? For answer to the question, click at the eyelet. To dismiss the answer, click at "OK". If you disagree with any of my answers, sass me at haysjohnva@hotmail.com.

1. this apple [pointing to it]
2. apples
3. the last apple I ate
4. that moving car [pointing to it]
5. motion
6. velocity
7. bear footprint
8. that bear footprint
9. bear that made that footprint
10. my body temperature of 98.7 degrees F.
11. gravity
12. How is an illation different from an abstraction?
13. British physicist, Nancy Cartwright, wrote a book, Why The Laws of PHysics Lie. What did she mean?
14. How does typical scientific language seem to confirm Cartwright's complaint?
15. Reality.
16. Ansatz.
17. Homology.
18. Philosopher Douglas Gasking said, "Physics is corrigible. Mathematics is incorrigible." What did he mean?.
19. figure&ground
20. Science.
21. The sun will rise tomorrow.
22. How does difference between ONTOLOGY & EPISTEMOLOGY affect SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY?
23. How does difference between ONTOLOGY & EPISTEMOLOGY affect our every day lives?
24. How OBJECTIVE are CONCRETIONS?
25. What is a daily example of that SUBJECTIVE-THRESHOLD EFFECT?
26. What is a PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATION of THE SUBJECTIVE-THRESHOLD EFFECT?