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Social Science, Ontology and Explanation: Some Further Reflections:
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In this article, Howard suggested that the major and minor premises of the hypothetico-deductive model were the same as those of the Bousma-Flint dispute.Abstract:
While I am grateful to Mr. Howard for the careful attention he gave to my paper, ’Ideals of Order: History and Sociology’, I cannot, in the end, accept his suggestion concerning the nature of the dispute between Flint and Bousma. Howard thinks that ’they are concerned (though perhaps without quite realizing it) with the major and minor premises respectively of the hypothetico-deductive model rather than operating from two entirely differ-read more
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