Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:how to change negative anchors? |
Posted by: | stephen |
Date/Time: | 27/05/2004 12:42:16 |
Just fresh out of an exam on personality and individual differences, it seems to me that scientific empericism is one way of studying the self. So when I read this: "Incorrect in the presupposition that what is scientifically measureable, or what is chosen to be measured, equates directly to an individual's personal outcome, or that a predetermined outcome is always more desireable than what actually emerges. Scientific research has as *its* outcome, a statistical consistency, no better, no worse. But if something much better but not categorically equivalent to the outcome arose, would the research even be able to recognize it?" I think about Roger's emphasis on phenomenology. Not to be confused with solipsims, idealism and phenomenalism, phenomenology refers to a 20th-century philosophical movement dedicated to describing the structures of experience as they present themselves to consciousness, without recourse to theory, deduction, or assumptions from other disciplines such as the natural sciences. Here's a link: http://www.connect.net/ron/phenom.html I have one exam left. Thank god. |