PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Wilhelm Wundt, Science Wars, Confirmation Bias

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 005
• Professor: Sohai

Document Summary

Before scientific revolution, it was accepted that only deductive reasoning led to necessary truth. View that humans might not be knowledge acquisition. deductive and inductive reasoning. able to understand physical reality. He adopted aristotle"s logic and tried to reconcile it with. Christian theology. reason in order to from which new knowledge was deduced via. True knowledge was understand universe, not demonstrations; perception was just a source. Does not deny existence of based on god"s senses. of information (not knowledge). physical reality but it denies revelations. Correspondence theory of truth statement that humans can have reliable. His writings were shadow of real world. is true when it corresponds with reality. Human soul had innate assumes there is physical reality which has. This view was known to many century, as catholic knowledge of universe. priority and which human mind tries to involved in scientific. Church took over understand. revolution. education in middle ages.