Testing Tools of Reasoning
| Document type: | Journal Articles |
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| Article type: | Original article |
| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
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| Author(s): | Bertil Rolf |
| Title: | Testing Tools of Reasoning |
| Journal: | APA Newsletters |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Volume: | 07 |
| Issue: | 01 |
| ISSN: | 1067-9464 |
| Publisher: | The American Philosophica Association |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Management (Sektionen för management) School of Management S- 371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/mam/ |
| Authors e-mail: | bertil.rolf@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | This paper claims that there are two kinds of empirical testing: intercontextual and intracontextual, depending on the intended scope of inductive generalization. Intercontextual tests would need to correct for mechanisms contributing to effects. Such mechanisms are today largely unknown. Intracontextual testing is far safer. But are not its lessons tied to a specific context? It will be shown that, to some extent, its lessons generalize beyond its context. |
| Subject: | Computer Science\Artificial Intelligence Computer Science\General Business Administration\Information |
| Keywords: | Test Efficacy Education Reasoning Computer support |
| Note: | http://www.apaonline.org/ |
