POLC78H3 Lecture Notes - Causal Reasoning, Big Bang, Content Analysis
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Natural outgrowth of what our minds do to make judgements based on trust and authority etc. Selective observations:see what u wanna see, what facts are consistent and ignore the ones that are inconsistent. If conclusions are combination of any of these then u r most likely wrong, you could turn out to be correct by chance eg sheldon"s incorrect revelation in big bang theory which he got by an error. Scientific explorations must confirm to what we observe. Eg if we thrown a ball in the air it will come down so we cant say that gravity doesn"t exist bcz there is something that brought that ball down. Goal- regularity- is there a class of events that seem to be consistent so that i can say i undertsnad this and extend it by saying it"s a pattern. Focus on what is rather than what should be?- what is going on in the world rather than what should be.
