College 1 Flashcards
1
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Normativity
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The palce of values in social science
2
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Naturalism
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Relationship between natural and social science
3
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Reductionism
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How social structure relate to the people that constitute them
4
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Demarcation problem
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How to draw a line between science and non-science
5
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Logical positivism (verificationism)
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statements are only meaningful if they can be proven through experience or logic
6
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Verifiability
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The meaning of a statement is its means of emperical verifying the statement
7
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Falsifiability
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A scientific idea must be testable and ahve the potential to be proven wrong, it exist as long as their not falisable.
8
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Tentativeness
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Scientific knowledge is always temporary, imperfect, and changeable.
