Saturday, April 21, 2007

Discovering a theory

"Having recorded the definable activities and actions, the observer would then infer the principles that his/her observations conformed with"......

It says.. the descriptive theory employes what philosophers refer to a 'inductive logic' which is a process of reasoning whereby lower level outcomes are used to identify or specify higher level ones...
So we can 'generalize' specific things happening to us.
Not understood? Read this then: "from individual observations of the phenomena an inference is made about the general population"

What am I reading?

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