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  • Scientists who held this view came to be called hypothetico-deductivists; their views about both hypothesis generation and deductive predictions were each strongly opposed by the inductive-empiricists.

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

  • 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

  • However, science operates within a hypothetico-deductive-Bayesian framework, and cosmology is no exception here.

    Primeval music Gordon McCabe 2009

  • The scientific method is very basic, hypothetico deductive.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • We use hypothetico-deduction in order to break through this problem of naïve induction.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • The scientific method is very basic, hypothetico deductive.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • 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

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

    Neo-positivist philosophy of social science Daniel Little 2009

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

    Archive 2009-09-01 Daniel Little 2009

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