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A 4 page research paper that concerns a scenario in which an artist creates a work that incorporates two feathered wings gleaned from road-kill. The wings are left to dry, tied to a rafter and when the artist returns finds that they were not as clean as they appeared to be and were, in fact, invested as a pile of dead maggots lies below them. In cleaning up the maggots, the artist inadvertently steps on several staining the tile floor. At least, the artist assumes that the brown stains that will not clean up resulted from the crushed maggots and concludes "maggot juice stains." However, can this be proven and explained logically? The writer discusses Hempel's deductive-nomological model of explanation and designs an experiment to test the "maggot juice stains" hypothesis. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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tied to a rafter and when the artist returns finds that they were not as clean as they appeared to be and were, in fact, invested as a pile
of dead maggots lies below them. In cleaning up the maggots, the artist inadvertently steps on several staining the tile floor. At least, the artist assumes that the brown stains
that will not clean up resulted from the crushed maggots and concludes "maggot juice stains." However, can this be proven and explained logically? First of all, the artist makes several
assumptions about the chain of events that were not actually witnessed by that individual. The artist assumes that the wings were invested with flies, which laid the maggot eggs, or
that, flies got into the studio at some point, and laid the eggs. Furthermore, it is assumed that the maggots dropped to the ground and died (but did not
desiccate) when any minute amount of tissue still present on the wings was consumed. At this point, the artist returns, clean up the maggots and crunches a few into the
tile floor, leaving stains. Seeing the stain, and failing to remove them, the artist concludes that the stain are "maggot juice" and this seems logical from what the individual has
actually observed. However, this conclusion is also based on a string of assumptions pertaining to phenomena that was not observed. In order to prove that the stains resulted from
crushing the maggots underfoot, the artist could construct an experiment that recreates the conditions under which the stains were produced. Obtaining a some sort of material that is sufficiently similar
to the first bit of road-kill, the individual could suspend this material over a piece of tile that has been designated as expendable and leave it in order to observe
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