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WGS160Y1 Study Guide - A Priori And A Posteriori, Reductionism

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whitecrab978
19 Jun 2012
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UTSG
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Women and Gender Studies
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WGS160Y1
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Various ways of figuring out if perspective is decontextualizing: authors talk simply about males and females, context is gone. Universal claims: bio-reductionism similar to context stripping. If x determines y, y must occur if x is present. Carries with it absolute inevitability, it has to happen. Ex) girls are inferior due to their inferior skeleton structure: uni-directional causal thinking have claims that are not deterministic where this is uni- directional causal relationship. Means there is some action/connection between x as y. Not inevitable, it is possible to change outcome. Immediate uni-causal claims made, there is something happening right now that causes sex/gender behaviour. Ex) pms & mood swings cause hormone circulating in body. Ex) of difference between 3 & 4, prolonged breast feeding can make a child smarter when older causal. Prolonged breast feeding will make a child smarter.

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