Everyday Life And Political Analysis

Question 1

Constitute the basic elements of political science

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Concepts and Theories

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The multitude of activities and events that happen in the daily existence of people.

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“everyday life”

Question 3

The ultimate objective for social science is to build a _______

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SCIENCE

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A body of knowledge that is deemed to be reliable for being correct and useful as explanation of why and how it is that events occur the way they do.

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Science

Question 5

Scientists aim at producing knowledge that is based on perception of “_____”, rather than _____, or ____, which are based on perception of “______”

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Reality, opinion, or belief and appearance

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the essential criterion for science is… and it is used to acquire knowledge, which includes observation of what is observable through sense faculties of humans.

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the rigor in the method or methodology

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the manner of observation being designed in such a way as to allow inference …. relationship between a suspected “cause” and hypothesized “effect”

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Experiment

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Plato’s book

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The Republic

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is the discipline of studying humans in society

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Social Science

Question 10

the process of generating the larger name is called

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generalization

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What is the utility of generalization or finding general names?

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that we only have to review the features that define a set, determine whether these are shared by any given additional name, and the decision can be made whether the general name can be applied, or alternarively whether the particular name can be subsumed in the general name.

Question 12

involves or entails the identification or specification of a feature (or features) found in common across all given specific names, such that the particulars taken together form a clasd of things

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Generalizatiob

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naming or giving a name to a generalization is called

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Conceptualization or conceptualizing

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are named ideas or mental constructs and these are ths basic building blocks of analysis

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concepts

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The adequacy of analysis rests initially on the

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Adequacy of conceptualization

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Two problematic nature of concept formation

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The essential contestability of concepts and concept stretching

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pointing out that concepts are not unproblematic givens that only have to be discovered by application of conscientious effort.

Concepts are subject to variation as well as to change

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Essential contestability of concepts

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To the problem created by the addition of more and more features as acceptable defining features to allow the inclusion of particular instances within a concept name

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Concept stretching

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more familiarly known to political science students for his social contract theory

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Thomas Hobbes

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Hobbes’ book

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Leviathan

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The production of knowledge from sense observations

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Empiricism

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is the name for the impression of the world outside of a person’s body

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Sense

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“Decaying sense”

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Imagination

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when one express one’s “decaying sense”

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Memory

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sum of memory

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Experience

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wisdom that is gained from experience is called

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Prudence

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differentiates "prudence" from "sapience" which is

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wisdom gained from science

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as the representation or appearance of some quality or other accident of a body without us, which is commonly called an object

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Thought

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"mental discourse"

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"train of thought"

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which is the faculty solely of the humans species; it is by ______ that men express theor thoughts

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Speech

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The activity of "reckoninh the consequences of names"

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Reason

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Posed the problem of "conceptual stretching" provides the basic elements and processes pertaining to concepts

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Giovanni Sartori

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Concept is a

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Mental construct

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the class of things to which the concept applies

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Extension

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The list of features or characterisitcs the qualify specific or concrete objects to fall within the concept name

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Intension

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a metaphor that provides the image of concepts as functional for "containing" information from observations

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data containers

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concepts are used as the basis for making "____" obesrvations of actual events and objects

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Data

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Specification of a procedure to follow in order to make empirical obeservations pertinent to the concept

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Operational Definition

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a word that encompasses or includes a multiplicity forming a class of thing is an

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Abstraction

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actually encompasses several abstractions

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Ladder of abstraction

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as it encompasses many different things at different levels of abstration

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Multi-dimensional

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The language that we use

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Jargons

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5 elements of state

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Territory, people, government, sovereignity and recognition

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most common identification is that "politics" refers to

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Government

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Two other names crop up as candidates for the identity of the essencs of politics

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Power and authority

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acceptability

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Legitimacy

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power which has acceptability

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Authority