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442:. Intellectual honesty is an unbiased approach to the acquisition, analysis, and transmission of ideas. A person is being intellectually honest when he or she, knowing the truth, states that truth, regardless of outside social/environmental pressures. It is possible to doubt whether complete intellectual honesty exists—on the grounds that no one can entirely master his or her own presuppositions—without doubting that certain kinds of intellectual rigour are potentially available. The distinction certainly matters greatly in 95: 197: 54: 549:(among others) realized that the work left certain assumptions implicit—assumptions that could not be proved from Euclid's Axioms (e.g. two circles can intersect in a point, some point is within an angle, and figures can be superimposed on each other). This was contrary to the idea of rigorous proof where all assumptions need to be stated and nothing can be left implicit. New 638:
yet. The reason often cited by mathematicians for writing informally is that completely formal proofs tend to be longer and more unwieldy, thereby obscuring the line of argument. An argument that appears obvious to human intuition may in fact require fairly long formal derivations from the axioms. A particularly well-known example is how in
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Published mathematical arguments have to conform to a standard of rigour, but are written in a mixture of symbolic and natural language. In this sense, written mathematical discourse is a prototype of formal proof. Often, a written proof is accepted as rigorous although it might not be formalised as
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and other fallacies which frequently plague conclusions within academia. Other disciplines, such as philosophy and mathematics, employ their own structures to ensure intellectual rigour. Each method requires close attention to criteria for logical consistency, as well as to all relevant evidence and
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Rigour in the classroom is commonly called "rigorous instruction". It is instruction that requires students to construct meaning for themselves, impose structure on information, integrate individual skills into processes, operate within but at the outer edge of their abilities, and apply what they
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Still, advocates of automated theorem provers may argue that the formalisation of proof does improve the mathematical rigour by disclosing gaps or flaws in informal written discourse. When the correctness of a proof is disputed, formalisation is a way to settle such a dispute as it helps to reduce
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Generally speaking, classroom rigour consists of multi-faceted, challenging instruction and correct placement of the student. Students excelling in formal operational thought tend to excel in classes for gifted students. Students who have not reached that final stage of
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The setting for intellectual rigour does tend to assume a principled position from which to advance or argue. An opportunistic tendency to use any argument at hand is not very rigorous, although very common in
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was frequently used to describe a condition of strictness or stiffness, which arises from a situation or constraint either chosen or experienced passively. For example, the title of the book
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is a process of thought which is consistent, does not contain self-contradiction, and takes into account the entire scope of available knowledge on the topic. It actively avoids
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Hardware memory errors are caused by high-energy radiation from outer space, and can generally be expected to affect one bit of data per month, per gigabyte of DRAM.
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Second, there is the question regarding the role and status of mathematically rigorous results and relations. This question is particularly vexing in relation to
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Mathematical rigour can apply to methods of mathematical proof and to methods of mathematical practice (thus relating to other interpretations of rigour).
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During the 19th century, the term "rigorous" began to be used to describe increasing levels of abstraction when dealing with
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describes the different approaches or methods which may be taken to apply intellectual rigour on an institutional level to
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Rigour in the classroom is a hotly debated topic amongst educators. Even the semantic meaning of the word is contested.
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can therefore be at odds with a principled approach; and intellectual rigour can seem to be defeated. This defines a
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roughly translates as "mediating theological morality between rigour and laxness". The book details, for the
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of information published. An example of intellectual rigour assisted by a methodical approach is the
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Both aspects of mathematical rigour in physics have attracted considerable attention in
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exactly, and in which situations they can be more forgiving yet still considered moral.
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Gelfert, Axel, ”Mathematical Rigor in Physics: Putting Exact Results in Their Place”,
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In the legal context, for practical purposes, the facts of cases do always differ.
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was seen as extremely rigorous and profound, but in the late 19th century,
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
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added rigour to the works of Riemann, eventually culminating in the
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possible differences of interpretation. At an institutional level,
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Mathematical rigour can be modelled as amenability to algorithmic
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Mathematical rigour is often cited as a kind of gold standard for
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learn in more than one context and to unpredictable situations
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answers; or socially imposed, such as the process of defining
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Davey, Kevin, ”Is Mathematical Rigor Necessary in Physics?”,
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where such proofs can be codified using set theories such as
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Adhering absolutely to certain constraints with consistency
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Euclidean geometry—19th century and non-Euclidean geometry
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First, there is the general question, sometimes called
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Intellectual honesty and the contemporary scientist
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