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Epistemology and You

Tips: 0.00 INK Postby dealing with it on Sat Feb 06, 2016 5:28 pm

Epistemology and You

This is an introduction to the basic -- yet difficult -- questions of epistemology. I received a score of "subjectivist". (Subjectivists believe that there is no external reality -- we're all making this all up!]

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Re: Epistemology and You

Tips: 0.00 INK Postby MayContainPlagiarism on Sat Feb 06, 2016 8:38 pm

You link some far-out stuff sometimes, DWI.

Quiz Website wrote:Post-positivism is a wholesale rejection of the central tenets of positivism. A post-positivist might begin by recognizing that the way scientists think and work and the way we think in our everyday life are not distinctly different. Scientific reasoning and common sense reasoning are essentially the same process. There is no difference in kind between the two, only a difference in degree. Scientists, for example, follow specific procedures to assure that observations are verifiable, accurate and consistent. In everyday reasoning, we don't always proceed so carefully (although, if you think about it, when the stakes are high, even in everyday life we become much more cautious about measurement. Think of the way most responsible parents keep continuous watch over their infants, noticing details that non-parents would never detect).

One of the most common forms of post-positivism is a philosophy called critical realism. A critical realist believes that there is a reality independent of our thinking about it that science can study.


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Re: Epistemology and You

Tips: 0.00 INK Postby Sara Whitley on Sun Feb 07, 2016 9:33 pm

You got: Positivist

"In a positivist view of the world, science was seen as the way to get at truth, to understand the world well enough so that we might predict and control it. The world and the universe were deterministic -- they operated by laws of cause and effect that we could discern if we applied the unique approach of the scientific method. Science was largely a mechanistic or mechanical affair. We use deductive reasoning to postulate theories that we can test. Based on the results of our studies, we may learn that our theory doesn't fit the facts well and so we need to revise our theory to better predict reality. The positivist believed in empiricism -- the idea that observation and measurement was the core of the scientific endeavor. The key approach of the scientific method is the experiment, the attempt to discern natural laws through direct manipulation and observation."
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Re: Epistemology and You

Tips: 0.00 INK Postby MayContainPlagiarism on Sun Feb 07, 2016 9:46 pm

Ha, Sara. Get with the hip. Get with the new. Get with the post-positivist scene. We've got nightcore, and cookies.

Silly Test wrote:We use deductive reasoning to postulate theories that we can test. Based on the results of our studies, we may learn that our theory doesn't fit the facts well and so we need to revise our theory to better predict reality. The positivist believed in empiricism


What pushed me out of this category and into post-positivism? Is it the presupposition that the entirety of our observational "reality" is the construct of a brain that cannot accurately judge whether or not it is able to conceptualize all necessary things to truly understand reality, and therefor all science is false but "good enough"?

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Tips: 0.00 INK Postby Aniihya on Mon Feb 08, 2016 3:55 pm

I got subjectivist. By the way, post-positivism sounds so hipsterish.
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Aniihya wrote:By the way, post-positivism sounds so hipsterish.


Nah it's really, really scene, actually. So it's somehow worse.

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Re: Epistemology and You

Tips: 0.00 INK Postby VindicatedPurpose on Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:18 am

Post-Positivist.
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VindicatedPurpose wrote:Post-Positivist.


Welcome to the club VP.

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