COMM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Platonic Idealism
23 May 2020
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Truths: many reasons for why we know certain truths personal experiences, media, research studies/scientists: vegetables are good for you, people who are similar to each other tend to like each other. Some everyday ways of knowing (and their problems: method of tradition/tenacity handed down from generations, you don"t exactly know why you know this. In the court cases and making laws, it establishes predictability and stability for future issues. Fear appeals are effective, but only if you give resolutions: method of observation you or someone else has seen it with their own eyes, surface level: personal experience or of someone else we know. You ate vegetables, and you felt better: rigorous level: baconian empiricism, much more systematic, you go out seeking results. Inaccurate observation: completely wrong, didn"t hear or observe correctly. Selective observation: only seeing what you want to see.
