• deductive-nomological model (DN model) of scientific explanation, also known as Hempel's model, the Hempel–Oppenheim model, the Popper–Hempel model,...
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  • efficiency of the research. Confirmation bias Deductive-nomological Explanandum and explanans Inquiry Models of scientific inquiry Philosophy of science...
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  • Nomology (redirect from Nomological)
    framework for building a nomological network of relationships between constructs in decision making. Deductive-nomological model Nomological determinism Nomothetic...
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    authoritarianism, antisemitism, and propaganda that would later serve as models for sociological studies the institute carried out in post-war Germany....
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  • explanation Deductive-nomological explanation, involves subsuming the explanandum under a generalization from which it may be derived in a deductive argument...
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    instead that science is based on the procedure of conjecturing hypotheses, deductively calculating consequences, and then empirically attempting to falsify...
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    1982. A vigorous attack, especially on Popper's restricting himself to deductive logic. Tausch, Arno (2015). Towards New Maps of Global Human Values, Based...
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    theory to explain a subject Hypothetico-deductive model – Proposed description of the scientific method Models of scientific inquiry Predictive power –...
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    generalizations from experience; mathematical inference, generally conceived as deductive [and a priori] in nature, Mill set down as founded on induction. Thus...
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  • an argument is supported not with deductive certainty, but at best with some degree of probability. Unlike deductive reasoning (such as mathematical induction)...
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  • science. Hempel articulated the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation...
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    elements of Western civilisation. Weber also proposed a socio-evolutionary model of religious change where societies moved from magic to ethical monotheism...
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    produced novel attempts at such a synthesis. Concepts in Hempel's deductive-nomological model play a key role in the development and testing of hypotheses...
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  • appropriate curvature to model a portion of hyperbolic space and in a second paper in the same year, defined the Klein model, which models the entirety of hyperbolic...
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  • the covering law model's other component, the deductive-nomological model (DN model). Yet ultimately, Salmon held statistical models to be but early stages...
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  • in science Operationalism Phenomenalism Philosophy of science Deductive-nomological model Ramsey sentence Sense-data theory Qualitative research Relationship...
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    Retrieved 6 March 2021. "hypothetico-deductive method". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 15 June 2021. "hypothetico-deductive method". Encyclopedia Britannica...
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    in science Operationalism Phenomenalism Philosophy of science Deductive-nomological model Ramsey sentence Sense-data theory Qualitative research Relationship...
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  • scientific method,[page needed] that is, the proliferation of formal-deductive model building and quantitative hypothesis testing. Approaches to the discipline...
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    elements to detect isomorphisms, comparing "local grammars" , or building a model of a theory within its alternative. Incommensurability, however, only arises...
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  • was superior. Physicists knew better, but, busy developing the Standard Model, were so steeped in developing quantum field theory, that their talk, largely...
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  • example, the decline of Covering Law (CL) models of explanation, e.g., Hempel's deductive-nomological model, has stimulated interest how mechanisms might...
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    a conditional production rule of the form "if A then B". Semantic nets model knowledge as a graph consisting of vertices to represent facts or concepts...
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    them through falsifying experiments in accordance with Hempel's deductive-nomological model. It has been seen as an irony that Semmelweis' critics considered...
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    often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. According to William Grimes of The New York Times, "Lucien Freud and his...
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  • critiques. A number of 20th-century philosophers maintained that logical models of pure science do not apply to actual scientific practice. It was the publication...
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  • "development-by-accumulation" of accepted facts and theories. Kuhn argued for an episodic model in which periods of conceptual continuity and cumulative progress, referred...
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    towards biology as the science providing the closest and most compatible model for social science. Biology has been taken to provide a guide to conceptualizing...
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  • modern European origins and stylizes it into a spatio-temporally neutral model for processes of social development in general. Furthermore, it breaks the...
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  • Hempel was prominent in the development of the deductive-nomological (DN) model, then the foremost model of scientific explanation defended even among...
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