Fifth, there are some rules regarding what Lakatos called the 'hard core' of a discipline, the rational-methodological equivalent of the metaphysical worldview [12, 40].
In general it seems rational to agree with the methodological naturalists that the best hope for a theoretical understanding of the world is by pursuing the methods which are typical of the sciences.
While not to be taken as prescriptive guidance, the results of this study provide some evidence towards rational dosage form design, as well as methodological approaches to help design tools for further evaluation of acceptability within paediatric studies.
Elster does not draw as sharp a distinction as he might have between the commitment to methodological individualism and the commitment to rational choice theory.
The methodological approach consists in the economically rational distribution of the total effect of reliability improvement among the system components, which is calculated using the average reliability parameters of the components.
This, together with his antipositivistic argumentation (see Verstehen), can be taken as a methodological justification for the model of the "rational economic man" (homo economicus), which is at the heart of modern mainstream economics.
Thus, both from a methodological and a policy perspective it is rational not to account for the preferences of pure 'protesters'protesters
Beginning in the 1980s, their importance was reinforced with the emergence of the methodological approach known as new institutionalism and its intellectual streams, including rational choice institutionalism, historical institutionalism, normative institutionalism, and sociological institutionalism.
Thus we find in apparent competition different conceptions of post-metaphysical philosophy: the projects of experiential meaning determination, of formal rational reconstruction and of naturalistic explications of leading theoretical and methodological notions.
