Psychology 2800E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stomach Cancer, Determinism, Scientific Method
27 Sep 2016
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Charles peirce ( 1877): the fixation of belief . In this essay he describe several ways of knowing. Begin with general premises (believed , a priori , to be true) Conclusion: all kangaroos have livers ( learned through deductive logic) Problem 1: the premises might not be true. P1: all welfare is giving to the poor . P2: all charity is giving to the poor . But is it? (we draw the illogical conclusion here even though p1 2 are true) Consider this: p1: all canadians are people (true) C: all canadians are egyptians : empiricism: relying on direct experience and observations as a way of knowing ( i got a from horse mouth) Someone reads from bible that horses has 28 teeth, but some philosophers said horse is the same species as zebra, so horses has same teeth as zebra. Last philosopher (empiricist) suggested counting teeth from horse.
