CRIM 300W Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Falsifiability
19 Nov 2016
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Look at the world and come up with hypothesis. Systematic explanation composed of premises that indicate an outcome"s causal and associated elements. Descriptions of knowledge becomes a theory when: Multiple premises believed to be true are combined to obtain a conclusion from a single case. Conclusion is based on agreement of multiple premises assumed to be true based on multiple cases. If the premises are true then the conclusion is true. If a if b if c then d. All necessary but none sufficient on their own. All must be present for crime to occur. No crime will occur if anything missing. Bc people are always changing, unpredictable, full of chaos. If the effect on a on b is c. In depth explanation of an observed phenomenon containing premises and a conclusion. No explanation of why/what causes it because no falsifying case exists.
