SOCY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Auguste Comte, Social Philosophy, Falsifiability
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They are ways of understanding and knowing about the world around us. Philosophy and science seek to expand knowledge and understanding about various aspects of the world but they do so in diferent ways. Acivism is a pracice: a sustained efort to take acion. The formal study of knowledge, the nature of existence, truth and values. Uses observaion and systemaic argumentaion to explain variously: Alternaively, philosophy can refer to a speciic set of ideas explaining knowledge, truth, and the nature of existence, and appropriate values. All knowledge systems are implicitly or explicitly built upon some philosophy. Philosophy is refered to the toolbox of any knowledge system, it deals with values. Science is a set of generally agreed upon procedures for resolving diferences of opinion about maters of fact. Science seeks to explain phenomena in the empirical world by generaing ans tesing formal theories and uses observaion and experimentaion to develop and test the axiomaic arguments that makeup theories.
