PHL 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sui Generis, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
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The mind and the body are two separate things. This crisis of self assertion creates a need for a way to answer the questions. Means we need a way to answer questions. The sciences developed a systematic way of developing theories. Mechanistic view (descartes) singular answers and narrowing and objectifying answers. Step 1 - you start with a theory about the way things are. To create a theory, you need a hypothesis. To create a hypothesis, you need a definition of terms. To define means to delimit, you are saying only the things with these definitions are counted as existing, things outside are not. For this reason, this is not a good method. Step 4 - once you got your definition of terms you devise the experiment. Step 5 - you then do the experiment and gather the data. Step 6 - and then you interpret it. Descartes is known to be the first modern philosopher.