SOC200H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: System On A Chip, Nomothetic
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Most of what we know is a matter of agreement and belief and little is bases of personal experience. The basis of knowledge is agreement we can"t learn all by personal experience alone. We know some form tradition and some from experts. Scientist have certain criteria for accepting the reality that they haven"t personally experienced, It should have an empirical and logical support: it should make sense and it shouldn"t contradict the actual observation. Agreement reality what we know from culture that we share with others. Experiential reality what we know from personal experience. Science offers a special approach to discover the reality through personal experience. Epistemology is the science of knowing and methodology is a subfield of it which is the science of finding out. Human inquiry aims at answering what and why question and we pursue these goals by observing and figuring out.
