3 Empirical, Conceptual, and Normative Claims

Logic and Scientific Thinking

Course Information
1 Types of Knowledge
2 Premises and Conclusions
3 Empirical, Conceptual, and Normative Claims
4 Deduction and Induction
5 Deductive Tools, Validity, and Truth
6 Formal Fallacies
7 Informal Fallacies 1
8 Midterm Review
9 Midterm Exam
10 Informal Fallacies 2
11 Misinformation
12 Persuasion and Rhetoric
13 Correlation, Causation
14 Reading a Study Critically
15 Final Exam

Table of contents

Lecture
Reading

3 Empirical, Conceptual, and Normative Claims

Lecture

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Reading

Hume, D. (1739). A treatise of human nature, Book III, Part I, Section I. (PDF) Required.

2 Premises and Conclusions

4 Deduction and Induction