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Inductivism — Wikipedia (en)

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Inductivism is the traditional and still commonplace philosophy of scientific method to develop scientific theories. Inductivism aims to neutrally observe a domain, infer laws from examined cases—hence, inductive reasoning—and thus objectively discover the sole naturally true theory of the observed. Inductivism's basis is, in sum, "the idea that theories can be derived from, or established on the basis of, facts". Evolving in phases, inductivism's conceptual reign spanned four centuries and began with Francis Bacon's 1620 proposal in his Novum Organum, itself a reply to the pre-scientific scholastic model of inquiry which prioritized deductive reasoning from sources of belief taken to be authoritative such as religious texts. In the 19th and 20th centuries, inductivism succumbed to hypotheticodeductivism—sometimes worded deductivism—as scientific method's realistic idealization. Yet scientific theories as such are now widely attributed to occasions of inference to the best explanation, IBE, which, like scientists' actual methods, are diverse and not formally prescribable.

Tema degli esploratori: storia e filosofia della scienza (deposito sistematico; ricerca «scientific method»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Inductivism» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductivism
Wikidata Q265590 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q265590
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductivism?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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