POLSCI 2NN3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Karl Popper, Nomothetic, Thomas Kuhn
23 Nov 2017
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To answer these questions, we must delve into larger philosophical questions. A particular theory about the nature of being or the kinds of things that have existence. Or is the world a product of subjective beliefs, ideas? (speaking of the social world) Can we say that the social world has an objective existence, ie. gender, social order, The study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity. Think about something like gender, suppose there are fundamental differences between man and woman. Are we constrained by the type of knowledge we can develop. The analysis of the principles or procedures of inquiry in a particular field. There are two different types of political scientists, both are scientific but base themselves off different views of ontology, epistemology, and methodology. Positivism: naturalism: only one scientific method to gather knowledge for all subjects.
