Sentence examples for methodological rule from inspiring English sources

The unspoken methodological rule is: Look for natural regularities underlining the phenomena of interest.

This can be seen as another application of the methodological rule to prove everything "capable of proof".

To develop such a theory, a methodological rule should be followed: the observing system is somehow part of its own observations.

The only methodological rule that is universally applicable is 'anything goes', which buys its universality at the cost of being completely empty (1970a, 105).

Feyerabend famously argued that every proposed methodological rule has been fruitfully violated at some point in the course of scientific advance, and that only by breaking such rules could scientists have made the progressive steps for which they are praised (1975).

This creates problems, as Lars Udehn points out, since the mere fact that one can explain social phenomena in terms of individuals "does not imply the methodological rule that they should be explained this way" (2001, 216) – especially not if the "half-way" knowledge obtained is sufficient for our (extra-scientific) purposes.

That even the most basic methodological rules are themselves not based on faith is also proved by the historical record.

In fact, it's impossible to develop any set of methodological rules by which scientists work: ad hoc, rule-breaking postulates are the order of the day.

Pollsters other than Zogby may stick to the same list of methodological rules, but nonetheless establishment polls like those of Gallup, Pew, and Harris often differ substantially from one another.

The philosophical task here is to adapt one of the existing approaches to confirmation (Bayesianism or eliminativism, for example) to the complex contexts Kuhn presents or, if that cannot be done, to formulate new methodological rules, rules that can be defended as conditions of rationality that will apply to these contexts.

There are no universally applicable methodological rules.