ГИПОТЕТИКО-ДЕДУКТИВНЫЙ МЕТОД

Hypothetico-Deductive Method

A methodological device whereby certain propositions are advanced as hypothetical and subjected to verification by inferring effects on the strength of available valid knowledge and comparing these effects to the facts. Hypothetico-Deductive Method is an important element of scientific methodology. It is used in association with a number of methodological operations: comparison of the facts; revision of existing concepts; formulation of new concepts; agreement of hypotheses with other theoretical tenets, etc. The neo-positivist "philosophy of science" is, therefore, wrong when it elevates Hypothetico-Deductive Method to an absolute and describes it as the only essential methodological operation from the point of view of logic.