NSE 21A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Deductive Reasoning, Scientific Law, Inductive Reasoning
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Theoria to speculate: evolved to mean organized information intended to explain engage in reasoning. Theory provides structure for thinking and behaviour: theories informs nurses in practice. Purpose of theory: aids in developing understanding, deconstructing a situation, helps you solve problems and answer questions, explore and explain phenomena, explain past events and predict future events, and develop an element of control. Theory, laws, principles, facts-> deductive reasoning-> explanation of phenomena: deductive reasoning, going from abstract, broad ideas, to specific ideas. Scientific theory: explains why phenomena occur: scientific law: describes what phenomena happens, repeated scientific predictions. Inductive: narrow to broad: deductive: broad to narrow, to describe, to explain, to predict, to control, abductive: a conceptual leap often made to a different person or population. Phenomena/phenomenon: observable connections/relationships between objects, events, people, or ideas, phenomenon have two or more objects, events, people, etc. that are in relationship with one another, noumena: focused on perception as opposed to observation, no factual data.
