deductivism

To arrive at this hard kernel of wisdom, Descartes used the method of reasoning known as deductivism: reasoning from a general set of facts to one specific, irrefutable fact.

Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001

To arrive at this hard kernel of wisdom, Descartes used the method of reasoning known as deductivism: reasoning from a general set of facts to one specific, irrefutable fact.

Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001

But Popper's ideas themselves, Feyerabend alleges, were not new to him, deductivism having been defended as early as 1925 by Viktor Kraft, and falsificationism being “taken for granted” at Alpbach.

Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009

In addition to the development of formal logic, another aspect of deductivism is its emphasis on ˜foundations™.

Non-Deductive Methods in Mathematics Baker, Alan 2009

(Whittaker 1935) While the senior physicist rejects Milne's operationalism and attacks upon the geometrical commitments of relativistic proponents, he is considerably more forgiving about Milne's hypothetico-deductivism, and even goes so far as to remark Milne's “brilliant record in astrophysical discovery.”

Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s Gale, George 2007

In a series of lectures given at Harvard during late ˜32 and published early in the new year as The Expanding Universe, Eddington denied the efficacy of both operationalism and hypothetico-deductivism, and not only defended explanatory realism, but strengthened his ontological position heroically: the theoretical entities of relativistic cosmology were not just plausible, they were so necessary to understanding the universe, that cosmological knowledge was essentially impossible without them.

Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s Gale, George 2007

Whatever the controversy is about, the issue is not how to interpret hypothetico-deductivism.

Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s Gale, George 2007

Each of the sixteen contributors to the special article chose a side in the controversy, either pro Dingle's inductive empiricism, and con Milne et al. 's rationalist hypothetico-deductivism, or vice versa.

Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s Gale, George 2007

Taken together, these elements constitute a commitment to a hypothetico-deductivism (H-D) which is characteristic of some instances of actual scientific reasoning that Gassendi discusses.

Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005

In so doing, Descartes elevated deductivism to a veritable religion of the intellect.

Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001