CMST 1150 Lecture : Communication Studies Notes
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What should we name it: q"s of fact, q"s of value, 2nd stage of inquiry: observation, 3rd stage of inquiry: constructing answers, the 3 stages are not nec. Claims are important but they are not enough, you must have evidence. Logical warrant calling for a conclusion based on the evidence. There are big claims sasquatch, big claims need big evidence. It"s the commitment to the tentative of all its conclusions. There are not final answers in science. science is a process of inquiry. Its not the answers it"s the process you get to the answers. Science is not getting the final answers but getting closer to it: the nature of sci ( a quotation by michael shermer, natural science, essential characteristics of nat. Worlds: humanistic, h. & nat. sci. not entirely separate, social sciences, an extension of the nat. sci"s, humans as object of study, uses objective methods. Research designs, active and knowing being: research is designed to isolate variables.
