1. What are the seven stages of the scientific approach as described here and what are their respective purposes?
2. What is the difference between analysis and synthesis? Which mode of thought would be more appropriate for the study of language and why?
3. Mark off three columns. In the first list five specific abstract and five specific concrete (physical) objects. Now in the two other columns name some of their inherent and accidental attributes. Do any of your objects share the same attributes? Why is this so?
4. How does one's vocabulary affect the way one sees the world? Does it help to see similarities if there is a name for the attribute you want to compare? Take one of the terms from the list made in exercise 3, and categorize it further. Do your divisions already have names, or are you obliged to come up with new terms?
5. Name at least six modes of thought. Which of these has the longest history? Which modes are the best founded for science? Which modes are the most fruitful for further progress in science?
6. What is a model? Why is a model necessary for understanding? In what ways does a model rely on a theory?
7. Name five things that will make a scientific theory successful.