LAWS1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Deductive Reasoning, Positivism
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The punishment of the crime deters people from doing the crime, or doing it again. The methods of the natural sciences should be applied, and could be applied, to the social world. The foundation of our knowledge of the world (our epistemology) is data derived from observation. The core method involved the collection of data, the development of hypotheses, and the testing of these for verification or falsification (hypothetico-deductive reasoning). The combination of natural scientific methods and deductive reasoning led to a powerful preference" for quantitative over qualitative data. Become more easily frustrated and aggressive, which is linked to violent behaviour. Higher socio-economic people would have access to more resources and be able to help their family members with adhd.
