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purpose of systematic approach to science
discover real truths without bias
three levels of understanding science
description, prediction, control
description
collecting facts to suggest hypothesis
prediction
demonstrates correlation of events, causal relationship cannot be determined yet
control
highest level! functional relations can be derived
dependent variable
specific change in one event
independent variable
specific manipulation of an event which causes change in another
determinism
everything occurs as a result of another event
accidentalism
everything is random/accidental
fatalism