COG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lodestone, Cartesian Coordinate System, Analytic Geometry
9 Oct 2013
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It is a generic name for all sciences that study cognition. They all share a common feature, everything is a part of cognition. We hit a gap, no scientific explanation for cognitive application. Scientific evolution is incomplete because qualitative data is less prevalent. Cognitive science is not just synoptic integration it is the attempt to naturally explain the mind in a qualitative sense of science to complete the evolution. Naturalistic imperative is to render a synoptic integration to explain cognition naturally. Creating plausibility constructs, we need to qualitatively complete the scientific explanation we do that by carrying out the imperatives of cognitive science. How we judge theories, we prefer theories that are more elegant. Elegance is one of the things we use to rationally assume our constructs. In psychology we use converges from many people in order to decide something. The probability that each piece of evidence come to one conclusion is high among good theories in psychology.
