To a degree, Hook's belief in the primacy of scientific method presupposed the Peircian and Deweyan account of a generalized methodology for all the sciences.
For Hook, the primacy of scientific method did not require a prior set of foundational metaphysical beliefs but was justified by its empirical consequences.
In general, although many agree on the primacy of scientific methods and data validity in determining merit for publication and funding and that neither should be limited because of affiliation or financial interest, there is a range of viewpoints regarding the role of disclosure requirements.
But although Paivio (1986) explicitly claims to be an Empiricist, this seems to be mainly a way of indicating his commitment to the primacy of the experimental method in science, as opposed to "rationalistic" methods like computer simulation.
Dewey insisted on the primacy of the reflective method of inquiry over settling on fixed answers to questions about the good.
Findlay, a type of "clinician-scientist" more clinical than scientific, jealously defended the primacy of his own inductive methods from the encroachments of laboratory science.
It is time to reassert the primacy of integrity, logic, reason, and the scientific method in public policy.
The primacy of paper over pixels is partly because new methods of digitally distributing coupons have yet to fully catch on.
I will suggest the concept of 'spatial rights' – the primacy of the spatial visual encoding, and present several methods for enhancing visualizations through adding implicit relation information without disrupting the spatialization of the explicit relation.
Archaeology was an essential method for Foucault because it supported a historiography that did not rest on the primacy of the consciousness of individual subjects; it allowed the historian of thought to operate at an unconscious level that displaced the primacy of the subject found in both phenomenology and in traditional historiography.
