POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Inductive Reasoning, Psych, Deductive Reasoning
16 Nov 2015
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Political : everything and anything to do with power, common concern (e. g. group, community, region, nation, humanity, planetary) Politics: expanding notions on our common concern: what or whom you include has political effects, the study of politics has a purpose politically motivated , what we see politically is constantly changing. Narrow or broad definitions of politics have political consequences. Normative: what things should be like (political theory) This is how political theory generally was written, the great thinkers tried to figure but how the best to live and to organize society. Empirical- scientific approach: the only things we can know can be known through our senses and our observations. What is or does: study only facts that are measurable. Empirical theories- 2 types: deductive reasoning: proceeds observations (e. g i deduce, from my recognition of the importance of human reasoning. always using logic.
