CS203- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 32 pages long!)
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Used to make inferences, categorize and remember perceived realties. Constitutive reality, not just representations, shapes reality, gives us road maps. Already have theories in our heads but do not always reflect upon them, take apart assumptions. Concepts are a set of ideas, facts are more singular; concepts rely on and organize facts. Facts seen as invariable, true, tested; concepts are more open to debate and contestable. Facts tend to be memorized, stand in their own right, while concepts are understood. Concepts must be propped up by arguments. How do we use facts: what we determine to be a fact is actually shaped by concepts. We so(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es t(cid:396)eat o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts as (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)epts a(cid:374)d as fa(cid:272)ts . Example: gravity as fact, experience in the real world. If i drop something it will fall: gravity as concept, theory of gravity functions. Trick is to think conceptually rather than factually.
