2005
DOI: 10.28945/2865
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Abstract: Many researchers -and their advisors on research method -adopt a doctrine called empiricism, which claims that researchers may only use empirical methods. This restrictive doctrine impoverishes any academic discipline where it is dominant. The main reason is that a discipline only qualifies for the status of a science after it has progressed beyond empirical generalisations to explanatory theories; but although empirical methods are useful for discovering the former, they are inherently useless for creating th… Show more

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“…Such an understanding of empiricism also severely dampens the creative, imaginative aspect of science that is always bound up with formulation and solution of problems (Cf. Cartwright 1995, 276; Mende 2005). “[T]he natural sciences,” notes Popper (Popper 1995, 90), “do not begin with measurements, but with great ideas.”…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Such an understanding of empiricism also severely dampens the creative, imaginative aspect of science that is always bound up with formulation and solution of problems (Cf. Cartwright 1995, 276; Mende 2005). “[T]he natural sciences,” notes Popper (Popper 1995, 90), “do not begin with measurements, but with great ideas.”…”
Section: Notesmentioning
confidence: 99%