PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Human Science, Naturwissenschaften, Wilhelm Dilthey
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Goethe"s approach: vorstellungsarten: way of conceiving and representing things bound to the question of darstellung (presentation) questions of presentation is a question of language and rhetoric. He is in between poet and research world. He experienced the world and he analyzed the world being successful researcher. You must be able to step into the world as well as knowing how to analyze it. Phenomena are events in the world and we want to observe them carefully and rescue them from obscurity (because some things people can"t see about it). So as scientists, when we study an area, we want to get a sense of the whole. In intro psych, we learned to predict and explain, we were not taught to observe. Natural history is the careful observation and description of phenomena in the world. Theory: formal account of the underlying process. 2 virtues important in science: patience and irony. Irony of the truth i can change.
