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Main Reasons to Call a Text into Question

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This chapter illustrates the main warning signals that could help us to detect the flaws of an explanation in physics: internal contradiction (two examples); direct contradiction of a law of physics (one example); indirect contradiction of a law of physics (one example); logical incompleteness of an explanation (three examples); overgeneralization (three examples); incompatibility with a thought experiment (three examples); incompatibility with an unperformed experiment (one example). Finally, we point out that several warning signals can intervene in parallel to question a given text, as shown in a last example (the direction of the current in the batteries).

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  1. Matter and Complex Systems UMR 7057, University of Paris, Paris, France

    Laurence Viennot

  2. Laboratoire de Didactique André Revuz EA 4434, University of Paris, Paris, France

    Nicolas Décamp

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Viennot, L., Décamp, N. (2020). Main Reasons to Call a Text into Question. In: Developing Critical Thinking in Physics. Contributions from Science Education Research, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43773-2_2

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