IBP Psychology and Science- Science as knowledge derived from the facts of experience (ch1)
IBP Psychology and Science
Chapter 1: Science as knowledge derived from the facts of experience
Science: to be based on what we can see, hear and touch rather than on personal opinions or speculative imaginings.
- If observation of the world is carried out in a careful, unprejudiced way then the facts established in this way will constitute a secure, objective basis for science.
- If, further, the reasoning that takes us from this factual basis to the laws and theories that constitute scientific knowledge is sound, then the resulting knowledge can itself be taken to be securely established and objective.
Empiricism and positivism share the common view that scientific knowledge should in some way be derived from the facts arrived at by observation:
- The British empiricists of the seventeenth and
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