TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints393
UR  - http://cogprints.org/393/
A1  - Chow, Siu L.
Y1  - 1992///
N2  - The rhetoric-analytic critique of experimental psychology owes its apparent attractiveness to (a) some erroneous ideas about cognitive psychology and the rationale of experimentation, (b) the failure to distinguish between prior data and evidential data vis-à-vis the to-be-corroborated explanatory theory, and (c) evidential data owes their identity to a theory that is independent of the theory being tested. Theories in cognitive psychology are accepted because they can withstand concerted efforts to falsify them.
KW  - Theory-dependent observation
KW  -  Rhetoric
KW  -  Objectivity
KW  -  Theory corroboration
KW  -  Rationale of experimentation
KW  -  Data prior to the theory
KW  -  Evidential data in support of the theory
TI  - Acceptance of a Theory: Justification or Rhetoric?
SP  - 447
AV  - public
EP  - 474
ER  -

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