PSCI 2701 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Social Psychology, Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, Fair Coin

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 2701
• Professor: Simon Langlois- Bertrand

Document Summary

Present and future consumers and producers of research. Experts" at making sense of conflicting arguments and interpretations. Learn how to ask and answer questions about the political world. What we want is to get the answer to questions, some simple, some complex, some obvious, some misleading. However, many, many obstacles prevent this process from being easy or straightforward. Incorrect inference from a limited number of cases. Any argument attempts to make a logical link between several premises, which leads to a conclusion. The queen of the uk is a woman. Therefore, the queen of the uk is mortal. If society"s basic structures are just, citizens will not rebel. At the very least, the reasoning needs to be valid. The premises are key: we need to evaluate them. Both premises need to be acceptable and relevant. He is wrong in his policy recommendations, because he was wrong in his previous ones.