Classifying Generalization: Paradigm War or Abuse of Terminology?

• Main Authors: WILLIAMS, John N., TSANG, Eric W. K.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: research methodology; generalization; induction; deduction; Hume’s problem of induction; paradigm; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1449; https://doi.org/10.1057/jit.2014.32
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Lee and Baskerville (2003) attempted to clarify the concept of generalization and classify it into four types. In Tsang and Williams (2012) we objected to their account of generalization as well as their classification and offered repairs. Then we proposed a classification of induction, within which...