Versions Compared

Old Version 3

changes.mady.by.user Alicia Whavers

Saved on

compared with

New Version Current

changes.mady.by.user Andrew Scrimgeour

Saved on

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.

SCANNED PDF

I more and more see the need to consider carefully just how the following three things are both similar to and different from one another:

...

3. Nygren's threefold distinction of forms of "scientific," or "objective," argumentation into (1) "axiomatic," where the method is "deduction"; (2) "empirical," where the method involves "induction" as well as "deduction"; and (3) "philosophical," where the method, again, is "deduction," albeit in the different sense of "presuppositional analysis," i.e., deduction from X of its necessary presuppositions or conditions of possiblity, as distinct from deduction of X from certain axioms that necessarily imply it (Meaning and Method: 65-125, et passim).

22 March 1999