On methodology and hypothesis

Journal Title: Ido-Ruch dla Kultury - Year 2008, Vol 8, Issue 0

Abstract

The presented text consists of two basic parts. The first one includes reminiscences and the connected methodological resentments. The second one presents a wide panorama of standpoints concerning functions and kinds of hypotheses, their role and significance in contemporary research programmes of formal, empirical (connected with natural sciences and biology) and humane qualities. Sketchy and encyclopaedic interpretations, presented in the context of commentaries of the author of the presented paper, dominate there. The aim of the first part is to draw attention to some methodological mistakes which often appear and which have become common in some academic milieus to such a degree that some intervention and postulating correction referring to Polish and Western methodological literature is advisable. Those shortcomings are connected, among others, with the structure of academic work, with formulation and application of a hypothesis, with relations taking place between the general methodology and specialized methodologies, with kinds and types of research work, with reliability of information on sources of creative inspiration, as well as with the category of verification in its relation to confirmation, corroboration, testing, checking as well as to falsification and terms similar in meaning (...)

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Jerzy Kosiewicz

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Jerzy Kosiewicz (2008). On methodology and hypothesis. Ido-Ruch dla Kultury, 8(0), 196-234. https://europub.co.uk./articles/-A-128987