I guess a Marxist would have problems with the whole idea of methodological individualism, and a Galbraithian would have problems with the idea that self-interest can be defined without taking into account the ability of advertisers and so forth to shape preferences.
However, this idea gradually fell out of favor among scientists, as they became more and more committed to the idea of methodological naturalism and came to believe that direct appeals to supernatural involvement were scientifically unproductive.
In fact, unlike the idea of ontological reduction, methodological reductionism can be quite controversial.
The availability of human longitudinal and cross-sectional data on populations of study subjects make addressing these research questions possible and stimulate the development of methodological ideas on how these data could be used to better understand the forces and mechanisms shaping age patterns of human mortality rates.
All authors (VM, AF, SP, RH, VT, PI and AL) equally contributed to developing the general idea and methodological aspects of the investigation.
All authors (OK, RH, ACh, VT, MV, and VM) equally contributed in developing the general idea and methodological aspects of performed investigation.
Furthermore, implant migration increased over time, supporting the idea that the migration measured is not the result of methodological imprecision.
"The idea is very beautiful, but it would be a government of methodological disunity," he said.
As far as smart specialization is a new idea on European Union, the paper gives a complex overview of methodological approaches to smart specialization identification.
On the other hand, a number of studies refuted the idea of time dependency based on the methodological artifacts associated with the Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach used to estimate evolutionary rates (Emerson 2007; Bandelt 2008; Debruyne and Poinar 2009; Navascues and Emerson 2009).
Despite these methodological shortcomings, the idea of assigning a PI to a given drug and following rule-based treatment upon the predominant polarity seems reasonable and worthwhile; although we assume that psychiatrists follow these rules intuitively, a formal description bears advantages especially for education purposes.
