Titlebook: Inquiry and Understanding; An Introduction to E Jennifer Trusted Textbook 1987Latest edition Jennifer Trusted 1987 epistemology.inquiry.phi

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Facts and Language,ve come to appreciate that all observation involves inference and that we are not the passive recipients of hard data supplied by the objects and events in the world: we interpret our sensations in terms of observed objects and events because we are the kind of creatures that we are. We speak of .,

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Technical Terms,assessment of the status of facts, namely level of theory and precision of expression; it was also stated that precision of expression could involve the use of technical terms. These criteria also apply to the distinction between common-sense and scientific explanations, though, as with the distinct

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Aspects of Explanation: How, Why and Wherefore,predictions. In addition to their causal/predictive function explanations have two others: a descriptive function, answering the question ‘How?’, and a conceptual function, answering the question ‘Wherefore?’ An explanation may be made primarily to fulfil just one function but most will embody mater

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Laws and Quasi-laws, it depends. Not that reliability alone is sufficient for, as we have seen, if a law asserts a regularity that is not itself explained by a higher level theory the D-N explanation is unlikely to be satisfying. The blackness of a raven may be explained by the D-N argument:.but this would not generall

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Teleological Explanations,elpful to discuss teleological explanations in two categories: purposive explanations and functional explanations. The former attribute some . goal-directed behaviour to the .-agent whereas the latter imply a more passive quality whereby certain consequences occur. The two formulae ‘T’ and ‘F’, give

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Verstehen, purposes to others. In this chapter that view will be developed and it will also be argued that the operation of . is involved in explanations of social customs and ceremonies, that is that it is necessary to know the significance of social behaviour to the participants and the explanations (if any

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Values and Explanation,l sciences, the theories will reflect and embody values, particularly moral values. What we regard as right and wrong greatly influences our assessment of any explanatory theory involved in the interpretation and explanation of human behaviour. Thus those who believe that eating animals is wrong and