This page is for me to keep a record of new vocabulary/concepts I’ve learned, so I’m able to reference:
Quantitative Methods (Course 1 Notes):
Vocab:
- Empirical: Verified by observation/experience rather than theory/logic
- Scientific Method Principles:
- Empirically Testability: Physical Evidence or Observations that either support or contradict hypothesis
- Replicability: Repeatedly confirmed
- Objectivity: A clear and explicit definition of procedure and methods should produce the same results.
- Transparency: All procedures, definitions, and assumptions are publicly shared.
- Falsifiability: There is a possibility for there to exist evidence that contradicts the hypothesis.
- Logic Consistency: The logical basis of a hypothesis and its subsequent conclusions are logically sound.
- Observation: General relation between properties without explanation
- Hypothesis: General relation between properties with explanation
- Law: Super precise description of relation between properties; typically mathematical formula
- Theory: Overarching explanation of many related phenomena
Concepts:
Philosophical Realism: The belief that the external world exists independently of human thought.
Rationalism: Physical world is an imperfect reflection of (ideal) reality. Knowledge about reality can be attained through reasoning.
Empiricism: Physical world is the reality. Knowledge about reality can be attained through observation via the senses.
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