PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Immanuel Kant, Statistical Inference, Empiricism
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Empiricism: how to know stuff dogmatism: the tendency for people to cling to their assumptions empiricism. The belief that accurate knowledge can be acquired through observation. A set of principles about the appropriate relationship between ideas and evidence. theory. A hypothetical explanation of a natural phenomenon. rule of parsimony: when scientists set out to develop a theory they start with the simplest one. 14th-century logician william ockham suggested that it makes sense to start with the simplest theory possible and then make the theory more complicated only if we must hypothesis. Observation: discovering what people do to observe is to use one"s senses to learn about the properties of an event or an object. Measurement when we want to measure, we must always do two things define the property we wish to measure and then find a way to detect it. A description of a property in concrete, measurable terms. measure.
