COG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nelson Goodman, Sept
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Science is the opposite of common sense atran philosophy is used as it challenges common sense by the term (why) Common sense uses familiar to explain unfamiliar (intuitions) Science is contrary unfamiliar -> familiar: we try to reverse common sense but should use our intuition, we cant reverse what we cant control. Proposal: to analyze cognition into a basic method of categorized things. Class of objects that ( we sense belong together) -> psychological component ( crutial component) Our ability to categorize, creates for a coexperience ( so things aren"t raw individual experiences. Extract relevant information and transfer previous knowledge to other things, sometimes this may mislead you to other things ex. Good inductive inference -> predictions of how someone will believe same categorize ex. How small kids view objects. ( listen to lect for more clarity) Categorization can allow you to override temptation to use a lot of visual similarities.
