More on Gaining Reliable Knowledge: A Reply

More on Gaining Reliable Knowledge: A Reply

Matter and Mannan (1989) interpret Romesburg (1981) as declaring that scientific methods are systematic, like shop manuals; and they state this is not so. I argue they are correct in what they believe, but incorrect in their interpretation. They also believe the test of the threshold-of-security hyp...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of wildlife management 1989-10, Vol.53 (4), p.1177-1180
1. Verfasser: Romesburg, H. Charles
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Correlation coefficients
Inductive reasoning
Mannans
Paradoxes
Population estimates
Retroduction
Scientific method
Stochastic processes
Threshing
Wildlife management
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Zusammenfassung:Matter and Mannan (1989) interpret Romesburg (1981) as declaring that scientific methods are systematic, like shop manuals; and they state this is not so. I argue they are correct in what they believe, but incorrect in their interpretation. They also believe the test of the threshold-of-security hypothesis given in Romesburg (1981) is inappropriate; I argue it is not. I demonstrate that Matter and Mannan's (1989) claims do not weaken the validity or the importance of the message in Romesburg (1981).
ISSN:0022-541X
1937-2817
DOI:10.2307/3809630