CLD 322 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Fallacy, Relate, Karl Popper
16 Apr 2016
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Perspecive: a way to look at phenomena and make sense of the world around them. Sept 12, 2015: treaing concepts as though they were the phenomena that they represent. Problem occurs when concepts cannot be deined operaionally. Permits both classiicaion and generalizaion: according to the orthodox operaional approach, a, schema (organize info into groups, use exising knowledge to generalize) Components of theory concept that cannot be deined operaionally should not be used in scieniic research because it cannot be veriied intersubjecively: concepts linked in logical systemaic ways lead to. Conceptual deiniions: describe concepts by using other concepts. Primiive terms: unambiguous; oten conveyed using clear-cut empirical examples, some concepts acquire meaning only within the context of the theory in which they are found. Theory relates with pracice: scienists accept a theory only when the methodology for using it is logically and explicitly pointed out, concrete and cannot be deined by other concepts.
