I did my best to take notes of all the important parts of the two lectures in the first week, and I studied my notes before taking the exam, which helped me a lot. I hope I can help my fellow 1st year peers so that they can pass the course with a satisfactory grade :) (Note: This document only incl...
theory asup pos!t!on or a system of Ideas !ntended to
•
:
expla!n Someth!ng espec!ally one based on general pr!nc!ples
,
!ndependent of the th!ng be!ng expla!ned for example . :
darw!n's theory of evolut!on .
•
When we start look!ng at th!s not!on of theory ,
we d!scover
d!fferent types of
Knowledge :
nomothet!c
knowledge !deog!aph!c knowledge
a!ms at
general! zat!ons not much a!ms to
•
so
•
and for mutat!on of laws formulatelawsbuta!.ms at
Understand!ng the Mean!ng
natural of (
mostly !n
Ont!nyent un!que and
•
Sc!ences
. .
often Cultural or subject.ve
" "
*
water bo!ls at 100 degrees C Phenomena
>
( subject to
↳
Knowledge cla!m that
a
change)
g.ne.a.ag.ne.a.nu , .mu
, .nu .nu,
un!versal ly val!d
"
how were
property
•
from observat!ons relat!ons
organ!zed
general
•
so
,
to !n
Iaws
"
Anc!ent Greece ?
theory as tals!f!able (
Popper ) theory as a toolbox
• •
( Foucault )
, example of nomothet!c and !dea
graph!c knowledge
both
formu / ate
nomothet!c Knowledge cla!m
a
general
rule and
nomothet!c knowledge cla!m
law
!deograph!c Knowledge cla!m
↳ because !t !s
mak!ng analys!s of that
an part!cular
and
water at that
part!cular moment probably !f
,
you go
analyze !t !n 2000
years the chem!cal Compos!t!on of
f- astern Med!terranean sea w!lt have
changed
bas!e !dea beh!nd cla!m do
So the those Knowledge !s
•
:
you
want to
general!ze or do
you
want to br!ng Out the
?
un!que ness and
spec!f!c !ty of that
th!ng
!f nomothet!c
*
general!ze :
!t br!ngs Out and
spec!f!c !ty !deograph!c
•
un!que ness :
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