CLD 322 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Descriptive Knowledge, First-Order Logic, Verstehen
16 Apr 2016
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Science concept that is oten misunderstood: content vs. methodology, science refers to knowledge gathered by means of disincive methodology (scieniic methodology) Science derived from lain word scire, to know . Proposiional knowledge: descripive claims that some state of afairs in the world around us is either true or false. Proposiional knowledge is rooted in a set of beliefs. True beliefs must be jusiied: jusiicaion most controversial. Empiricists knowledge claims are jusiied on the basis of our sensory experiences alone (a posteriori ) Raionalists knowledge claims are jusiied by raional intuiion [innate capacity to grasp concepts and ideas regardless of our senses] (a priori) Basic assumpions of science: assumpions: fundamental premises considered to be unproven and unprovable. Nature is orderly: events do not occur at random. Sept 12, 2015: science opposes fundamental religion, spiritualism, and magic. Nothing is self-evident: claims for truth must be demonstrated objecively, scieniic thinking is skepical and criical. Knowledge is based on experience: must be empirical.
