Title: Reliable knowledge : scientific methods in the social studies /
Authors: Larrabee, Harold A. 1894-1979
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin,
Year: 1964
Subjects: Reasoning; Thought and thinking; Reasoning; Thought and thinking
Contents: Man as knower : from the outside -- Man as knower : from the inside -- Formal logic : what follows from prmisis -- Toward scientific methid : observation -- "Get the facts?" -- "But what facts? ; The rise of hypotheses -- Desirable qualities in hypotheses -- Clarigying the hypothesis : semantics -- words and meanings -- Clarifying the hypothesis : classificatiion and definition -- Clarifying the hypothesis : causal analysis -- Testing the hypothesis : The mechanical pattern -- Mill's method -- Testing the hypothesis : concomitant variations, measurement, and statisteics -- Testing the hypothesis : prediction, sampling, and pobablility -- Science and the social studies -- The historical pattern : fomulating and testing the hypothesis -- Combined use of the mechanical and historical patters : law and govenment.