• Inductivism is the traditional and still commonplace philosophy of scientific method to develop scientific theories. Inductivism aims to neutrally observe...
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  • inference", §§ iii "Liberal inductivism", Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 10 Jun 2010 (last updated): "Strict inductivism is motivated by the thought...
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    scientific theories generalise observations. Empiricism generally encompasses inductivism, a position that explains how general theories can be made from the finite...
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  • of the four strands". Karl Popper's epistemology, especially its anti-inductivism and its requiring a realist (non-instrumental) interpretation of scientific...
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  • empiricist, David Hume, posed a number of challenges to Francis Bacon's inductivism, which had been the prevailing, or at least the professed view concerning...
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    of the four strands." Karl Popper's epistemology, especially its anti-inductivism and requiring a realist (non-instrumental) interpretation of scientific...
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  • an excerpt of Novum Organum by Francis Bacon in which Bacon discusses inductivism: In establishing axioms by this kind of induction, we must also examine...
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  • & Littlejohn 2021, § 3. The Apriori Popper 2014, 2. Deductivism and Inductivism Juhl & Loomis 2009, p. 4 Juhl & Loomis 2009, pp. ix–x, 1–2 Russell 2023...
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    Robert Hooke, the rationalist approach described by René Descartes and inductivism, brought to particular prominence by Isaac Newton and those who followed...
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    evidences of their applications. The method combined empiricism and inductivism in a new way that was to imprint its signature on many of the distinctive...
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  • method center on: rationalism, especially as advocated by René Descartes; inductivism, which rose to particular prominence with Isaac Newton and his followers;...
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    Scientific Discovery) in 1934. Here, he criticised psychologism, naturalism, inductivism, and logical positivism, and put forth his theory of potential falsifiability...
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    hypothesis, Feyerabend defends 'counterinduction' as the counter rule to inductivism and "induction by falsification" as a valuable methodological rule. Counterinduction...
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  • Kotarbinska, Janina (1977). "The Controversy: Deductivism Versus Inductivism". Twenty-Five Years of Logical Methodology in Poland. Springer Netherlands...
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    "dated and unsatisfactory philosophical positions of operationalism and inductivism", that information and knowledge are both weak knowledge, and that wisdom...
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  • This model is rationalist, but critical insofar as it actively rejects inductivism. Fuller, Steve (2003). Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of...
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    quasi-empiricism, to the extent that the latter does not incorporate inductivism, a feature considered to be of vital importance to the foundations of...
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    Brights movement Criticism of science Denialism Empiricism Freethought Inductivism Lists about skepticism Logical positivism Naturalism (philosophy) Philosophic...
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  • inverse square law of electrostatics. See also inductive reasoning. inductivism The philosophy that holds that scientific research is guided by the various...
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    standards invoked by philosophers during Feyerabend's time (namely, inductivism and falsificationism). Starting from episodes in science that are generally...
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    Palmer and Michael Stonebraker, a Turing Award winner. Ilyas was the CEO of Inductiv Inc., an artificial intelligence start-up that uses machine learning to...
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  • flimsy "cardboard" accounts vaunt the superiority of empiricism and inductivism over the scientific nemesis of religious bigotry. This legend, as perpetuated...
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  • Inductionism Inductive definition Inductive inference Inductive reasoning Inductivism Industrial espionage Industrialisation Ineffability Ineffective assistance...
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  • Imre Lakatos Indeterminacy (philosophy) Individual Inductive reasoning Inductivism Infinite regress Information ethics Institute for Ethics and Emerging...
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  • questioning three of the latter's tenets: (i) data, (ii) phenomenological inductivism, and (iii) indirect indexicality. They point out an intrinsic controversy...
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    conflicting frameworks [Nietzschean valor, Christian pragmatism, and blind inductivism] stand as the novel's crowning intellectual achievement, side by side...
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  • Nuffield to have incorporated some particularly "naive" versions of inductivism. Strictly speaking, the Nuffield programme only applied to England and...
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    valor of Sanchez, the Christian pragmatism of Sassolini and the blind inductivism of Rosselli make for a sustained, intellectual tension that perfectly...
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  • Mind Full title "Philosophie des Unbewussten: Speculative Resultate nach inductiv-naturwissenschaftlicher Methode (speculative results according to the inductive...
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    Zealand, on 24 January 1979. Canberra Anthropology 4(1): 82–100. 1983. Inductivism and the test of truth: A rejoinder to Lowell D. Holmes and others. Canberra...
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