{"id":858,"date":"2008-09-19T13:36:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T17:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=858"},"modified":"2008-09-22T02:59:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T06:59:39","slug":"deductive-nomological-hypothetico-deductive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/19\/deductive-nomological-hypothetico-deductive\/","title":{"rendered":"deductive-nomological, hypothetico-deductive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our more concrete object of critique was the subsumptive character of the dominant mode of social and political theorizing.\u00a0 Subsumption in the field of method is evident when mainstream social scientists either deduce explanation from higher order laws or generalizations \u2014\u00a0the so-called <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">deductive-nomological<\/span><\/strong> form of explanation \u2014 or deduce predictions which are subjected to exhaustive tests \u2014 the so-called <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">hypothetico-deductive<\/span><\/strong> form of validation.\u00a0 Empirical objects are thus subsumed under the theoretical concepts, and do not modify or transform the latter, thus giving rise to what Althusser calls &#8216;a relation of exteriority&#8217; between theoretical categories and empirical phenomena ( citing Althusser Reading Capital: 49) (210)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our more concrete object of critique was the subsumptive character of the dominant mode of social and political theorizing.\u00a0 Subsumption in the field of method is evident when mainstream social scientists either deduce explanation from higher order laws or generalizations \u2014\u00a0the so-called deductive-nomological form of explanation \u2014 or deduce predictions which are subjected to exhaustive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/19\/deductive-nomological-hypothetico-deductive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;deductive-nomological, hypothetico-deductive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logics","category-methodology","category-ontology","category-retroduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}