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(1992) Positivism in psychology, Dordrecht, Springer.
Positivist conceptions of induction and the rejection of classificatory methods in psychological research
Don Schopflocher, Donald Kuiken , T. Cameron Wild
pp. 47-56
Francis Bacon's (1620/1878) conception of inductive methods was in some ways disturbingly naive. He suggested that if a sufficient number of scholars committed themselves to experimental investigation as he prescribed, the basic task of science—including moral science—could be accomplished in a few decades. Although conceptions of experimentation have changed considerably since the seventeenth century, there remains a touch of Baconian optimism in psychologists' contemporary commitment to experimental studies.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-4402-8_5
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Schopflocher, D. , Kuiken, D. , Wild, T.C. (1992)., Positivist conceptions of induction and the rejection of classificatory methods in psychological research, in C. W. Tolman (ed.), Positivism in psychology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 47-56.