Chapter 1 focuses on scientific thinking as a way of knowing. Yet we often rely on other methods for "fixing belief," as Peirce put it. Using the belief held by Nazis in the 1930s that Jews were an inferior race, show how such a belief could be formed and maintained through the nonscientific ways of knowing.

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The Answer of Chapter 1 focuses on scientific thinking as a way of knowing. Yet we often rely on other methods for "fixing belief," as Peirce put it. Using the belief held by Nazis in the 1930s that Jews were an inferior race, show how such a belief could be formed and maintained through the nonscientific ways of knowing.

Chapter 1 Focuses on Scientific Thinking as a Way of Knowing