POLSCI 3N06 Chapter Notes -Logical Positivism, Ontology, Animal Science
30 Nov 2013
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Political research, no matter how specific, parochial, and mundane, always starts with assumed answers to big-picture questions. There are certain objective properties of the outside world. There is an objective world out there that is what it is regardless of how we perceive it. If you take the example of gender, you can say that there are distinct differences between men and women and they hold strong regardless of social problems/nature. Reality is socially constructed and therefore socially variant. If you take this view, you don"t make any assumptions that these things have central properties, you look at the world as the product of the mind rather than out three. How do we gather knowledge about the world. What techniques can we use to access true knowledge. Positivism (the list is a bit of a simplification of a complex philosophy of knowledge, but ): naturalism: there can be only one:
