Global Warming Dialogue Analysis
John and Nicolas are entering a restaurant and begin to engage in a heated discussion.
Nicolas: It’s so cold out today, I don’t remember it being this cold in the past.
John: This climate change will destroy us one day.
Nick: What do you mean? Global warming is a myth. How can it be global warming if winter is colder than it used to be?
John: Are you seriously asking this? The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Nick: Are you really going to quote Bertrand Russell to me now?
John: Yes.
Nick: And what are you trying to imply by that?
John: Nick, to what extent do you believe that our doubt in knowledge increases, as one becomes wiser?
Nick: …show more content…
We learned in Biology last year about genetics, and DNA and then continued to go deeper into it and its replication, remember?
John: Oh yes I do remember. We also learned that DNA was first discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick.
Nick: They actually stole the research from Rosalind Franklin. They acquired her data, which showed how DNA is actually a double helix.
John: Oh right, I forgot about that. And don’t you forget that those were x-ray diffraction images that were taken of the DNA crystals because in most areas of natural sciences models are quite important.
Nick: Later on when we were learning more about DNA, how DNA has complementary base pairings, which means that the bases pair this way because they form Hydrogen bonds, and they fit together like puzzle pieces.
John: And don’t forget that each helix runs in the opposite direction, making them antiparallel!
Nick: Yes, can’t forget about that. Anyhow, later on when we learned about DNA reproduction.
John: That’s true. So we focus on the fact that DNA was a double helix in order to understand the way its bases paired, and how it could replicate. By doing so we build up our previous knowledge and our confidence increased in what we knew and there was no …show more content…
In Mathematics, we need intuition and imagination to be able to handle all the different concepts and in order to prove different theorems. To ease imagination, we use a precisely defined set of symbols standing for abstract things like sets and relations.
Francis: Exactly. We use different symbols to define different things, such as in the most basic Math that one can learn, addition, subtraction multiplication, and division.
Albert: Going further into this topic, as one knows the basics of Math, which Francis just said, one could develop the understanding of any concept in math. In Mathematics, we base all the newly gained knowledge on the previous knowledge that we were taught from a young age. Even when we learn calculus or other hard mathematical concepts, they are all surrounded by the central idea of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, we just execute them in different ways and end with different results. Meaning that as one becomes wiser, they become more confident in their previous knowledge.
John: Oh my Goodness! I haven’t thought of it in that way
Nicolas: It’s so cold out today, I don’t remember it being this cold in the past.
John: This climate change will destroy us one day.
Nick: What do you mean? Global warming is a myth. How can it be global warming if winter is colder than it used to be?
John: Are you seriously asking this? The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Nick: Are you really going to quote Bertrand Russell to me now?
John: Yes.
Nick: And what are you trying to imply by that?
John: Nick, to what extent do you believe that our doubt in knowledge increases, as one becomes wiser?
Nick: …show more content…
We learned in Biology last year about genetics, and DNA and then continued to go deeper into it and its replication, remember?
John: Oh yes I do remember. We also learned that DNA was first discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick.
Nick: They actually stole the research from Rosalind Franklin. They acquired her data, which showed how DNA is actually a double helix.
John: Oh right, I forgot about that. And don’t you forget that those were x-ray diffraction images that were taken of the DNA crystals because in most areas of natural sciences models are quite important.
Nick: Later on when we were learning more about DNA, how DNA has complementary base pairings, which means that the bases pair this way because they form Hydrogen bonds, and they fit together like puzzle pieces.
John: And don’t forget that each helix runs in the opposite direction, making them antiparallel!
Nick: Yes, can’t forget about that. Anyhow, later on when we learned about DNA reproduction.
John: That’s true. So we focus on the fact that DNA was a double helix in order to understand the way its bases paired, and how it could replicate. By doing so we build up our previous knowledge and our confidence increased in what we knew and there was no …show more content…
In Mathematics, we need intuition and imagination to be able to handle all the different concepts and in order to prove different theorems. To ease imagination, we use a precisely defined set of symbols standing for abstract things like sets and relations.
Francis: Exactly. We use different symbols to define different things, such as in the most basic Math that one can learn, addition, subtraction multiplication, and division.
Albert: Going further into this topic, as one knows the basics of Math, which Francis just said, one could develop the understanding of any concept in math. In Mathematics, we base all the newly gained knowledge on the previous knowledge that we were taught from a young age. Even when we learn calculus or other hard mathematical concepts, they are all surrounded by the central idea of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, we just execute them in different ways and end with different results. Meaning that as one becomes wiser, they become more confident in their previous knowledge.
John: Oh my Goodness! I haven’t thought of it in that way