- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition
- Preface
- Chronology
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Editor’s Note on the Text
- Part VI Logic and Methodology
- 21 Recent Logical Inquiries and Their Psychological Bearings
- 22 The Problem of Truth in the Light of Recent Discussion
- 23 The Mechanical, the Historical, and the Statistical
- 24 Mind
- 25 The Methodology of Science
- 26 Introduction to Poincaré’s Science and Hypothesis
- 27 Types of Order
- Part VII Moral and Religious Experience
- 28 The Problem of Job
- 29 The Philosophy of Loyalty
- 30 Individual Experience and Social Experience as Sources of Religious Insight
- 31 The Religious Mission of Sorrow
- Part VIII Community as Lived
- 32 Provincialism
- 33 Race Questions and Prejudices
- 34 On Certain Limitations of the Thoughtful Public in America
- 35 The Possibility of International Insurance
- 36 The Hope of the Great Community
- Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Josiah Royce
- Index
[The Methodology of Science]
[The Methodology of Science]
- Chapter:
- (p.763) 25 The Methodology of Science
- Source:
- The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, Volume II
- Author(s):
- John J. McDermott
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter focuses on the method of induction. The technique of induction consists wholly in learning how to take fair samples of the facts in question and how to observe these facts accurately and adequately. This kind of induction seems to be especially prominent in the organic sciences. However, a great deal of scientific work now consists of the forming and testing of hypotheses. In such cases, the inductive process is more complex. The technique of induction now involves at least four distinct processes: (1) the choice of a good hypothesis; (2) the computation of certain consequences, all of which must be true if the hypothesis is true; (3) the choice of a fair sample of these consequences for a test; and (4) the actual test of each of these chosen consequences.
Keywords: induction, fair samples, organic sciences, scientific work, hypotheses
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition
- Preface
- Chronology
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Editor’s Note on the Text
- Part VI Logic and Methodology
- 21 Recent Logical Inquiries and Their Psychological Bearings
- 22 The Problem of Truth in the Light of Recent Discussion
- 23 The Mechanical, the Historical, and the Statistical
- 24 Mind
- 25 The Methodology of Science
- 26 Introduction to Poincaré’s Science and Hypothesis
- 27 Types of Order
- Part VII Moral and Religious Experience
- 28 The Problem of Job
- 29 The Philosophy of Loyalty
- 30 Individual Experience and Social Experience as Sources of Religious Insight
- 31 The Religious Mission of Sorrow
- Part VIII Community as Lived
- 32 Provincialism
- 33 Race Questions and Prejudices
- 34 On Certain Limitations of the Thoughtful Public in America
- 35 The Possibility of International Insurance
- 36 The Hope of the Great Community
- Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Josiah Royce
- Index
