Frequencies, Probabilities, and Positivism

Behaviourism and positivism

✍ Brian D. Mackenzie 📂 Article 📅 1972 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 797 KB

From the standpoint of Kuhn's theory, such a claim must always be unjustified. The old theory, at the time of its death, is always able to do more than the new theory a t the time of its birth.

Indeterminacy and positivism

✍ Robert G. Meyers 📂 Article 📅 1978 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 495 KB

The aim of this paper is to clarify the relation between Quine's holism, the indeterminacy of translation and positivism. The interpretation I wish to present can best be brought out by contrast with a recent paper by Christopher Boorse. 1 Boorse argues that Quine's indeterminacy of translation deri

The probabilities of theories as frequen

The probabilities of theories as frequencies

✍ Ben Rogers 📂 Article 📅 1977 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 967 KB

Positivism and clinical psychology

✍ Edgar Miller 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 77 KB

Approaches to clinical psychology which favour quantification and experimental methods are often criticized as being `positivistic'. Critics typically do not define what they mean by `positivism'. At best they merely offer hints as to what they mean by this term. An outline of positivism as a philos

Positivism: Legal and aesthetic

✍ Richard Shusterman 📂 Article 📅 1982 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 449 KB

Comte after positivism

✍ Stephen Turner 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 369 KB

the union of statistics and medicine followed an extended, often stormy, courtship that lasted well over a century and in many ways was a shotgun wedding. Matthews' tale begins with