POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dependent And Independent Variables, Falsifiability, Immanuel Kant
26 Sep 2016
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Pol208- lecture notes week 2; intro to ir. States beginning to form also helped begin the study of ir (inter-national) 3 stages of a scientific process: describe what you see, explain what you saw and try to understand it, you predict using your findings science. Meaning that you test via observation, hypothesis, you must use facts not beliefs. Falsifiability: ability to prove something wrong (or right)- therefore testable. Causality: x affects (or causes) y; we call x the independent variable and y the dependent variable because it depends on x. Correlation= simply associated with each other, does not mean that is caused. The first demonstration of ir is the relations with the greek city states. The anarchic state of nature= there are no constraints on an individuals behavior, whether for gain, safety, or reputation, power seeking individuals will take from and destroy one another.
