Psychology 2800E Lecture Notes - Empiricism, Determinism, Charles Sanders Peirce

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2800E
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

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Charles peirce (1877): the fixation of belief : authority, e. g. , we believe most of the things, accept authority of textbooks; as patients, we take pills doctors prescribe because we assume the doctor would know what is good for us. Begin with general premises (believed, a priori, to be true); You can answer this question through this syllogistic process. Problem #1: the premises might not be true: If one premise is not true, then the conclusion might not be true. Premise 1: all welfare is giving to the poor . Premise 2: all charity is giving to the poor . You can"t draw a conclusion from those premises. Relying on logical discourse or a priori method is not an infallible way of knowing: empiricism: relying on direct experience and observations. The value of empiricism as a way of knowing, straight from a horse"s mouth .