SSH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Internal Consistency, Testability, Ad Hoc Hypothesis

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 100
• Professor: David Stamos

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Chapter 9 inference to the best explanation. Explanation: a statement asserting why or how something is or is not the case. Argument: reason given for believing something is true, that it is the case. Teleological: try to explain the purpose of something, how it functions, or how it fits into a pla(cid:374) (cid:894)teleos: g(cid:396)eek (cid:449)o(cid:396)d fo(cid:396) (cid:862)e(cid:374)d(cid:863) o(cid:396) (cid:862)pu(cid:396)pose(cid:863)(cid:895) The wall switch is here so you can turn off the lamp from across the room. Interpretive: meaning of something; seek to understand something. Procedural: how something is done or how an action is carried out. E. g. to stop the chemical reaction ariana added sulphur. Theoretical: hypotheses or theory on why something is or is not the case, why it is the way it is, why it happened the way it did. Reaso(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:862)f(cid:396)o(cid:373) p(cid:396)e(cid:373)ises a(cid:271)out a state of affai(cid:396)s to a(cid:374) e(cid:454)pla(cid:374)atio(cid:374) fo(cid:396) that state of affai(cid:396)s the best explanation is the one most likely to be true.