Sentence examples for rules of method from inspiring English sources

Following Hans Reichenbach (1891 1953), philosophers often distinguished between the "context of discovery" and the "context of justification". Once a hypothesis has been proposed, there are canons of logic that determine whether or not it should be accepted that is, there are rules of method that hold in the context of justification.

Philosophers of science in this period also thought that they had a clear view of scientific rationality: to be rational is to accept and reject hypotheses according to the rules of method, or perhaps to distribute degrees of confirmation in accordance with Bayesian standards.

Descartes gave four rules of method in philosophy based on mathematical procedure: (1) accept as true only indubitable (self-evident) propositions, (2) divide problems into parts, (3) work in order from simple to complex, and (4) make enumerations and reviews complete and general.

Kuhn's explanation contrasted with explanations in terms of rules of method (or confirmation, falsification etc).

Psychology can either take the laws of logic as premises and axioms of its own theories, or it can rely on the laws of logic merely as rules of method in accordance with which psychology must proceed.

Arguing against a "naturalistic" theory of method which makes standards depend on practice, Popper opted instead for a strongly normative epistemology, a discipline which lays down optimum rules of method for scientists to follow.

Even though there is a recommendation that sedentary behaviour should be monitored by incorporation of both self-reported and device-based measures [ 11], no consensus exists for a golden rule of method to measure sedentary behaviour [ 11].

Due to lack of design standards, the engineering decisions often rely on rule-of-thumb method which may lead to quite conservative or unsafe designs.

Alito's decision, as Steven Schwinn--associateate professor at the John Marshall School of Law in Chicago--has charged, was an exercise in circular reasoning that established a new set of "Wonderland rules for method-of-execution claims".

In The Rules of Sociological Method (1895), Durkheim expressed his will to establish a method that would guarantee sociology's truly scientific character.

Further, because much traditional construction wastes wood, engineering calculation has supplanted empirical and rule-of-thumb methods.