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Theories are made up of ideas attempting to structure thinking around a specific happening. Your readings for this week introduce the ideas of phenomena, concepts, propositions, and assumptions. This assignment is designed to help you think about those four aspects and explain the connections between each to help strengthen your understanding of the foundations and working parts of theory.
Define the following four terms in your own words, citing at least one source: phenomena, concept, proposition, and assumptions.
Review your definitions and think of an example from your day-to-day life or your practice experience that includes each of the four ideas.
For example, falls in clinical practice is a phenomenon you encounter. The idea that dementia patients are at greater risk for falls is a related concept. The related proposition is that dementia is related to falling in some way. An underlying assumption is that patients with dementia don't intend to fall.
Explain how all four aspects of your example work together to form the basis for a testable theory.
Cite a minimum of two sources in-text and in an APA-formatted reference page or slide.
Format your assignment as one of the following:
- 15- to 20-slide presentation with detailed speaker notes
- 1,050- to 1,225-word paper
- Another format approved by your instructor
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Running head: PHENOMENA, CONCEPT, PROPOSITION, AND ASSUMPTIONS
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Phenomena
Phenomena derived from the Greek word phainómenon, to display, shine, seem to be
apparent or manifest itself, is whatsoever that manifests itself. Phenomena are habitually but
always comprehended as things that appear or "capabilities" for a conscious being, or in belief
may be so. The term came into its contemporary philosophical application via Immanuel Kant
who differentiated it with the noumenon. In comparison to a phenomenon, a noumenon cannot
be straightly observed (Sarwoto & Affandi, 2015). Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz profoundly
prejudiced Kant in this portion of his philosophy, where phenomenon and noumenon function as
consistent technical terms. Far predating this, the antique Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher Sextus
Empiricus similarly used phenomenon and noumenon as related technical terms.
Concepts
Concepts are the basic constructing blocks of our thoughts and views. They take a
significant, significant role in all the features of cognition (Margolis & Laurence, 2011). When
the mind receives an overview, for instance, the tree concept, it obtains similarities from various
examples; the simplification allows a higher level of contemplation. Concepts arise as
abstractions or simplifications from experience; from the outcome of conversion of the present
opinions; or from the innate stuff (Margolis & Laurence, 2011). A conception is instantiated by
all of it definite real or probable occurrences, whether these are things in the actual world or
other thoughts. Concepts are studied as elements of human recognition in the cognitive science
of castigations of philosophy, linguistics, and psychology where a continuing debate inquires
whether all perception must happen through concepts.
Proposition
The proposition as a term has extensive application in the present analytic philosophy. It
is utilized to refer to some of or all of the subsequent: the primary bearers of truth-value, the
belief objects and other "propositional approaches" (i.e., what is supposed, mistrusted, etc.), and
the implications of declarative sentences (Brown, 2012). Propositions are the objects that are
sharable of attitudes and the principal holders of truth and falseness. Consequently, this
specification rules out particular candidates for propositions, comprising thought- and utterancetokens that are not shareable and actual events or truths that cannot be false.
Assumptions
An assumption commonly refers to an exterior conversation of logic. The word
assumption is an excellent instance of how a term can take a new approach of meaning over time
while remaining true to some characteristic of its original sense (Greenhill & Tye, 2014). The
assumption has continued in the language from the 13th century and was initially restrained to an
appropriate ecclesiastical connotation in the Catholic Church. The Latin word where it is it
founded implies “the act of being taken up or acknowledged,” and in English ASSUMPTION
denoted to absorbing into heaven of the Virgin Mary. The implication still is apparent currently,
and in the entire connotation it has assumed since then, one can perceive the common strand
running through them is the intellect of taking.
Part II
Definitions, Chronic Illness and a Middle-Range Theory of Self-Care
An example of day-to-day where phenomena, concept, proposition, and assumptions are
evident is the chronic condition of human health condition or illness, which is persistence or
otherwise long lasting in its impacts or a situation that comes with time (Riegel, Jaarsma, &
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