Psychology 2800E Lecture Notes - Periodontitis, Shark Attack, Determinism
3 Feb 2013
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Part 2: the scientific way of knowing. Charles peirce"s question in his essay (1877): the fixation of belief . How we come to know things: authority. Just cuz authority says it must be true doesn"t necessarily mean it is true : logical discourse (the a priori method) Results in knowledge that"s agreeable to reason : e. g. the use of deductive logic (syllogisms): Begin with general premises (believed, a priori, to be true); Problem #1: the premises might not be true: Consider this p1: socrates was a dog. Problem #2: logical errors : we often make logical errors when trying to think logically. P1: all welfare is giving to the poor . P2: all charity is giving to the poor . C: all canadians are egyptians?: empiricism: relying on direct experience and observations (to gain knowledge of the world) Problems occur when we rely too much on subjective empiricism :
