SOC150H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation, Research, Nomothetic
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Introduction how do we know what we know: most of what we know is a matter of agreement and belief, agreement basis of knowledge believing what we"ve been told and agreeing to it. Little of what we know is based on personal experience and discovery: part of growing up in society is the process of learning to accept what everybody around you knows is so. If you don"t know the same things, you can"t be part of the group. Ordinary human inquiry: casual reasoning recognition that future circumstances are rooted in or conditioned by present ones, e. g. We learn that getting an education will affect money earned in the future: e. g. Studying hard will result in better exam grades: e. g. Swimming beyond the reef will result in shark attacks: probabilistic reasoning recognition that effects occur more often, but not always, when specific causes are present, e. g.
