PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Data Science, Gestalt Psychology, Practical Reason
22 Jan 2020
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Insisted that science concentrates only on what could be known with certainty. Different from compt in what type of data science they could be certain about. For comte, it was physical events that could be experienced by any interested observer. Mach, however, agreed with the conception of berkeley and hume that we can never experience the physical world directly. Mach thinks we need to note which sensations typically cluster together and to precise mathematically the relationship among them. Science should be public and it should be able to be observable. The rationalist tended to postulate a much more active mind, a mind that acts on information from the senses and gives it meaning that it otherwise would not have. For the rationalist, the mind added something to sensory data rather than simply passively organizing and storing it in memory. Common-sense psychology ; we can trust our impressions of the physical world because it makes common sense to do so.
