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What is the point of theories under Positivism?

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explain relationships in data. Theories aren’t true but next way to explain= no causality

2
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Who introduced problem of induction? what are the two solutions?

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Hume: we can’t justify world we’ve experienced represents everything

  1. Inductivism (positivism)
  2. Deductivism- hume was right- but we can know which are false
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Deductivism- Kuhn

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In reality scientists ignore falsifications. Science is a paradigm shift

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Who were deductivists?

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Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend

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Feyerabend:

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Anything goes- anarchist view of science