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Subject(s)

• Research—Methodology [Browse]
• Research—Philosophy [Browse]
• Logic, Modern [Browse]
• Discoveries in science [Browse]

Series

• American university studies. Series V, Philosophy ; v. 168. [More in this series]
• American university studies. Series V, Philosophy ; vol. 168 [More in this series]

Summary note

The logic of discovery is nothing but the conceptualization of the rationality of scientific inquiry; yet each of the major logics of discovery - inductivism, hypothetico-deductivism, and retroductionism - has failed to conceptualize it. The author argues that the interrogative approach to scientific inquiry is one of the most promising alternatives, and he formulates a unique interrogative model which conceptualizes the rationality of scientific inquiry.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-208) and index.

Contents

• 1. The Concept of the Logic of Discovery
• 2. Traditional Logics of Scientific Discovery
• 3. The Interrogative-Dialogical Model of Inquiry
• 4. A New Interrogative-Dialogical Model of the Logic of Discovery
• 5. A Case Study
• 6. Conclusion
• 7. Bibliography
• 8. Index.

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ISBN

0820426539(alk. paper)

LCCN

94030670

OCLC

30914248

RCP

C - O

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