• 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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  • 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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  • efficiency of the research. Confirmation bias Deductive-nomological Explanandum and explanans Inquiry Models of scientific inquiry Philosophy of science...
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  • explanation Deductive-nomological explanation, which involves subsuming the explanandum under a generalization from which it may be derived in a deductive argument...
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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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  • inductive reasoning other than deductive reasoning (such as mathematical induction), where the conclusion of a deductive argument is certain given the...
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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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  • holism: some systems have properties independent of their physical parts Nomological holism: some systems follow physical laws beyond the laws followed by...
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  • Contextualism Conventionalism Deductive-nomological model Determinism Empiricism Fallibilism Foundationalism Hypothetico-deductive model Infinitism Instrumentalism...
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  • generalization rather than specific properties in the same context. Nomological Windelband, Wilhelm (February 1, 1998). "History and Natural Science"...
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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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    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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  • explanans. Carl Gustav Hempel and Paul Oppenheim (1948), in their deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, motivated the distinction between...
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  • even by neopositivist critic Karl Popper, was the deductive-nomological model (DN model). Yet DN model received its greatest explication by Carl Hempel...
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    emancipatory form of Marxist philosophy, Horkheimer critiqued both the model of science put forward by logical positivism, and what he and his colleagues...
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  • element bearing in mm multiplied by its speed in rpm Deductive-nomological model, a philosophical model for scientific explanation Double negative T cells...
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  • higher-order thought (HOT) model—or David Armstrong and William Lycan—who advocate a higher-order perception (HOP) model. An alternative higher-order...
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    Falsifiability is a deductive standard of evaluation of scientific theories and hypotheses, introduced by the philosopher of science Karl Popper in his...
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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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    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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    Specialties in epistemology ask questions such as "How can people create formal models about issues related to knowledge?" (in formal epistemology), "What are...
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    specific domain of culture may be understood by means of a structure that is modelled on language and is distinct both from the organizations of reality and...
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  • the telos that is the "well-being for all in society." The common wisdom model was developed by Grossmann, Weststrate, Ardelt, et al. as explaining the...
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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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    Positivism (redirect from Positivist model)
    According to this way of thinking, a scientific theory is a mathematical model that describes and codifies the observations we make. A good theory will...
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  • Ken Gemes (1993). The latter provides refinements to the hypothetico-deductive account of confirmation, arguing that a piece of evidence may be confirmationally...
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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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  • "development-by-accumulation" of accepted facts and theories. Kuhn argued for an episodic model in which periods of conceptual continuity where there is cumulative progress...
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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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    in science Operationalism Phenomenalism Philosophy of science Deductive-nomological model Ramsey sentence Sense-data theory Qualitative research Relationship...
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