PSCI 2702 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deductive Reasoning, Empirical Relationship, Empirical Evidence
27 Sep 2017
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We experience reality in two levels: at the concrete level and at the abstract level. The concrete level is based off of physical sensations (an empirical experience). This level is composed of percepts (sensory) and patterns (when percepts are aggregated, they form patterns). For example, a single dot on a page is a percept, whereas a line of dots is a pattern. A life full of sensations but without much meaning. The abstract level is composed of concepts which, when linked (relationship) together form propositions. Concepts are abstract terms for organizing sense experience. For example, if you have 6 pens, each one of them is concretely different, but the same abstract concept. This naming process is called conceptualization - you organize concrete experience by placing the different objects into a single, meaning category. Knowledge consists of the relationships that exist between reality"s components.
