Patterns of Discovery¶
Hanson, N. R. (1958). Patterns of Discovery: An Inquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Science. Cambridge University Press.
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Primes¶
- Abductive Reasoning
- It separates two states (a puzzling unexplained observation and a tentatively explained observation) and names the work required to cross between them — work done not by truth-preserving derivation or frequency projection but by comparative scoring of how well each candidate hypothesis would make the observation expected, the schema Hanson (1958) defended as a "logic of discovery" distinct from the deductive logic of justification.
This sourceDefends a Peircean retroductive/abductive schema — surprising observation, candidate hypotheses, explanatory ranking — as a 'logic of discovery' distinct from the hypothetico-deductive logic of justification.
- It separates two states (a puzzling unexplained observation and a tentatively explained observation) and names the work required to cross between them — work done not by truth-preserving derivation or frequency projection but by comparative scoring of how well each candidate hypothesis would make the observation expected, the schema Hanson (1958) defended as a "logic of discovery" distinct from the deductive logic of justification.
Mechanisms¶
- Sensory Walkthrough
- Its central risk is that imagined experience is theory-laden — what an observer expects to encounter shapes what they "walk through," so the sweep can quietly encode the very belief it was meant to test.
This sourceArgues that observation is theory-laden rather than independent of prior expectations.
- Its central risk is that imagined experience is theory-laden — what an observer expects to encounter shapes what they "walk through," so the sweep can quietly encode the very belief it was meant to test.
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