Theory: Items for discussion from second class meeting and readings Feb 2003

? / Set of Statements deductively linked with empirical realities
Analysis / Is Specific - Description / World War II
Analysis / Describe, Explain / and predict?
Analysis / Involves one or more objects / Describe objects
? / Analyze part 2 = Explain / Then have cause and effect? / Is this Theory?
Axioms / Definitional so therefore Theories
z / Deduction / is understood as the process that goes from the general to the specific, from consciously formulated rules to the application in language use. / It evokes the image of the grammar based methods and of cognitive approaches. In contemporary terminology it is easily identified with learning.
Good Analysis / Depends on good theory
Good Theory / Depends on good analysis
Good Theory / Predicts as True / Have confidence in prediction
Good Theory / May not be able to Prove it true in all cases / But have not been able to prove not True up to this point in time
Good Theory / Confidence in both Logic and empirical data / More empirical data
Hypotheticals / Not based on empirical data
z / Induction / is the process that goes from the specific to the general, namely first the real language use, from which will "emerge" patterns and generalizations. / It evokes natural language learning and a variety of direct methods. In contemporary terminology it is easily identified with acquisition
Knowledge / All based on Logic and Experience / Logic can change, data can change = new knowledge? Both effected by 3rd outcome
LAW / Tells What not why / Based on observation of results
LAW / Vs Hypotheses & Theories?
? / Logical
? / Phenomena / Event? Can be established as taking place in time and space / 2 or more events??
Policy / Justified based on analysis / Based on anticipate outcomes [needs prediction]
Theory / Is general - Definition / War is Armed Conflict between two or more organized Groups
Theory / involves two or more concepts / Define Concepts
Theory / How change in one can lead to another / If Change in X then Change in Y
Theory / Any general statement that purports to connect
Theory / Inevitable and indispensable / Any attempt to understand involves theory in the “Explain par to Describe [explain and predict]
? / Theory / Based on Logic, Empirical Data, Experience / Empirical Data = Experience?
? / Theory / Formula If A then B or is this a Law / Is Law just repeated and tested Theory?
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