hypothetico-deductive

Science is about using the empirical hypothetico-deductive method to develop some "rules of thumb" in our interactions with physical reality.

Crossroads 2009

Until recently, economics was generally understood to be a nonexperimental science with a hypothetico-deductive methodology.

Entropy 2009

Besides, against the background of Popper's “method of conjectures and refutations” and other versions of the hypothetico-deductive method, it is stasis, the long-term periods of stability, that most need explaining (Nickles 2003b).

Scientific Revolutions Nickles, Thomas 2009

It presupposes the comprehensive generality of the hypothetico-deductive model of confirmation theory.

Archive 2009-09-01 Daniel Little 2009

So while the predictions of any model developed via the hypothetico-deductive model must survive the test of observations, observations in Locke's scientia are wholly unnecessary.

Locke's Philosophy of Science Kochiras, Hylarie 2009

It presupposes the comprehensive generality of the hypothetico-deductive model of confirmation theory.

Neo-positivist philosophy of social science Daniel Little 2009

Consequently it is necessary to formulate a formal logic of confirmation the task that Carl Hempel picked up with his hypothetico-deductive model of confirmation.

Archive 2009-09-01 Daniel Little 2009

As far as I know, the only self-described "scientists" who think science is based on induction rather than the "method of hypothesis" (or the "hypothetico-deductive method" as it is also known) are psychologists and climate change "scientists".

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Consequently it is necessary to formulate a formal logic of confirmation the task that Carl Hempel picked up with his hypothetico-deductive model of confirmation.

The Vienna Circle on interdisciplinary science Daniel Little 2009

Chemistry and physics -- especially the classical versions of these sciences -- have a unified hypothetico-deductive structure; they discover laws of nature; and they derive the observable features of the domains of phenomena they encompass.

Components of positivism Daniel Little 2008