MPPSC GS PAPER 2 2014

Read the following excerpt and answer questions asked at the end. The answer to question should be based on the excerpt. The other challenge to the belief that science is primarily logical comes from its own practice. First of all, the success of science cannot be explained if we look at science primarily as something logical. Science creates its concept in ways that draws upon different types of intuition. For example, in physics some concepts are physically intuitive while some are mathematically intuitive. Science cannot be reduced to logic. Even mathematics couldn’t be although there is much more in mathematics which is purely about logic. Descartes could not create physics that Newton did because he made one cardinal mistake: he thought that physics was reducible to mathematics and it was ‘part’ of mathematics.
Which of the following inferences can be drawn from the above excerpt?

Read the following excerpt and answer questions asked at the end. The answer to question should be based on the excerpt. The other challenge to the belief that science is primarily logical comes from its own practice. First of all, the success of science cannot be explained if we look at science primarily as something logical. Science creates its concept in ways that draws upon different types of intuition. For example, in physics some concepts are physically intuitive while some are mathematically intuitive. Science cannot be reduced to logic. Even mathematics couldn’t be although there is much more in mathematics which is purely about logic. Descartes could not create physics that Newton did because he made one cardinal mistake: he thought that physics was reducible to mathematics and it was ‘part’ of mathematics.
Which of the following inferences can be drawn from the above excerpt?

Read the following excerpt and answer questions asked at the end. The answer to question should be based on the excerpt. The other challenge to the belief that science is primarily logical comes from its own practice. First of all, the success of science cannot be explained if we look at science primarily as something logical. Science creates its concept in ways that draws upon different types of intuition. For example, in physics some concepts are physically intuitive while some are mathematically intuitive. Science cannot be reduced to logic. Even mathematics couldn’t be although there is much more in mathematics which is purely about logic. Descartes could not create physics that Newton did because he made one cardinal mistake: he thought that physics was reducible to mathematics and it was ‘part’ of mathematics.
Based on the above excerpt, which of the following statement is FALSE?

Read the following excerpt and answer questions asked at the end. The answer to question should be based on the excerpt. The other challenge to the belief that science is primarily logical comes from its own practice. First of all, the success of science cannot be explained if we look at science primarily as something logical. Science creates its concept in ways that draws upon different types of intuition. For example, in physics some concepts are physically intuitive while some are mathematically intuitive. Science cannot be reduced to logic. Even mathematics couldn’t be although there is much more in mathematics which is purely about logic. Descartes could not create physics that Newton did because he made one cardinal mistake: he thought that physics was reducible to mathematics and it was ‘part’ of mathematics.
According to the excerpt, what was Descartes' mistake?

Read the following excerpt and answer questions asked at the end. The answer to question should be based on the excerpt. The other challenge to the belief that science is primarily logical comes from its own practice. First of all, the success of science cannot be explained if we look at science primarily as something logical. Science creates its concept in ways that draws upon different types of intuition. For example, in physics some concepts are physically intuitive while some are mathematically intuitive. Science cannot be reduced to logic. Even mathematics couldn’t be although there is much more in mathematics which is purely about logic. Descartes could not create physics that Newton did because he made one cardinal mistake: he thought that physics was reducible to mathematics and it was ‘part’ of mathematics.
Which of the following statement is WRONG in the context of above excerpt?

Educational institutions have always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition and knowledge from one generation to the next. The role of such institutions has become even more important today, because the role of family imparting them have weakened, owing to the development of economy. This passage best supports the statement that - for transferring the wealth of tradition and knowledge from one generation to the next.