derivationist

Kuhn himself made a somewhat related criticism of deductivist or derivationist accounts of scientific work in “Postscript.”

Scientific Revolutions Nickles, Thomas 2009

For it is part of the paradigm natural law view that the basic principles of the natural law are known by all, and the sort of arguments that would need to be made in order to produce derivationist knowledge of the human good are certainly not had

The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics Murphy, Mark 2008

It must be conceded, however, that a consistent natural law theorist could hardly hold that derivationist knowledge of the human good is the only such knowledge possible.

The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics Murphy, Mark 2008

Some have thought, echoing criticisms of natural law theory by those entirely hostile to it, that derivationist theories of practical knowledge fall prey to

The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics Murphy, Mark 2008

Professor Owen, however, although a derivationist, or evolutionist, is a very strenuous anti-Darwinian.

What is Darwinism? Charles Hodge 1837

Professor Owen, England's greatest naturalist, is a derivationist.

What is Darwinism? Charles Hodge 1837

While these difficulties persist for inclinationist and derivationist accounts of knowledge of the basic goods, they may well be eased if one affirms both accounts: one might be able to use inclinationist knowledge to provide some basis for bridge principles between knowledge of human nature and knowledge of human goods, and one might be able to use derivationist knowledge to modify, in a non-ad-hoc way, the objectionable elements of the account that one might be bound to give if proceeding on an inclinationist basis alone.

The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics Murphy, Mark 2008

While a natural law theorist might downplay the importance of derivationist knowledge of the natural law, it is hard to see how a consistent natural law theorist could entirely reject the possibility of such knowledge, given the view that we can provide a substantial account of how the human good is grounded in nature: for to show that the human good is grounded in nature is to show that human nature explains why certain things are goods, and it is hard to see how one could affirm that claim while entirely rejecting the possibility of derivationist knowledge of the human good (see Murphy 2001, pp. 16-17).

The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics Murphy, Mark 2008