SOC250Y1 Lecture Notes - Concubinage, Political Economy, Homo Sapiens

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22 Jun 2012
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The social is cognitive, carried in our heads. What is the relation between the known and knower. Social sciences- studying humans, relevant to oneself, the known (e. g. studying other people/opinions. Has no direct/objective access to that purported. Natural sciences- studies the other , the unknown external knowledge. Religion is based on and creates and epistemological dualism or split: Faith statements i. e. claims of religious believers- aren t fundamentally factual or empirical. Emotive i. e. expressing feelings of awe, reverence, dependence, joy, etc. Evidence/proofs of faith statements are internal to each particular religion- they aren t convincing to those believing in other traditions, nor to skeptics or atheists. Ontologyy- concerned with the nature of being , reality, or existence causally and constitutively (= what the world is and how it works ) Epistemology- concerned with the nature of knowledge, how we know things.

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