HLSC 2P15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sentence Clause Structure, Paradigm Shift, Thomas Kuhn

• School: Brock University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HLSC 2P15
• Professor: Dan Malleck

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Epistemology & health (where does knowledge come from?) Acceptance of this fact requires the acceptance or existence of other factors. The acceptance of this fact leads to specific outcomes or encourages us to explore specific pathways. We take information, act upon it based on the idea that this is a fact- either the individual or the government. (physics is full of easy to find black boxes) Part of what knowledge is about is about authority- who you believe there creditability. All knowledge is the outcome of human activity. Thomas kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions. These things were believed by intelligent, often brilliant people. This gives them the opportunity to have different viewpoints these (cid:498)things believed to be true were found not to be so(cid:499) The questioning of true- makes us ask questions about truth. Darwin"s upstream was a lot of information, but he took that and created. Upstream and downstream is about how information is used.