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Modes of generalizing from a case

A. Logic of replication

B. Theory generating

C. Naturalistic generalisation

Logic of replication

Case 1

Hypothesis H1 tested in the case and verified

Logic of replication

Case 1

Hypothesis H1 tested in the case and verified

Case 2

Hypothesis H1 tested in a critical case and verified

OR

falsified

Logic of replication

Case 1

Hypothesis H1 tested in the case and verified

Case 2

Hypothesis H1 tested in a critical case and verified

OR

falsified

Revised hypothesis H2 tested in a critical case and verified

OR

falsified

Case 3

THEORY

(HYPOTHESIS)

THEORETICAL

CONSEQUENSE

Deduction

1. A conceptual experiment

THEORY

(HYPOTHESIS)

THEORETICAL

CONSEQUENSE

CASE (EXPERIMENT)

EMPIRICAL

FACT

Deduction

2. An empirical experiment

THEORY

(HYPOTHESIS)

THEORETICAL CONSEQUENSE

CASE (EXPERIMENT)

EMPIRICAL FACT

THEORY

(is valid or not valid in this

case)

Deduction

Deduction 3. Comparison

Modes of generalizing from a case

A. Logic of replication

The domain of the theory

THEORY (Hypothesis)

+

CASE

CASE

FACTS

Theory generating

CASE

THEORY

FACTS

Induction

Theory generating

Modes of generalizing from a case

B. Theory generating

THEORY

CASE

+

FACTS

Abduction

“The surprising fact, C, is observed;

But if A were true,

C would be a matter of course,

Hence, there is reason to suspect that A is true”

Charles Sanders Peirce

Abduction

“[Abduction] is where we find some very curious circumstance, which would be explained by the supposition that it was a case of a certain rule, and thereupon adopt that supposition”.

Charles Sanders Peirce

FACT

FACT

THEORY

FACT

THEORY CASE

Abduction

FACT

THEORY CASE

Abduction

Abduction

“[Abduction] is where we find some very curious circumstance, which would be explained by the supposition that it was a case of a certain rule, and thereupon adopt that supposition. Or where we find that in certain respects two objects have strong resemblance, and that they resemble one another strongly in other respects”

Charles Sanders Peirce

Abduction

Naturalistic generalisation

Reflection-in-Action

“When someone learns a practice, he is initiated into the traditions of a community of practitioners and the practice world they inhabit. He learns their conventions, constraints, languages, and appreciative systems, their repertoire of exemplars, systematic knowledge, and patterns of knowing-in-action.”

Donald Schön

Modes of generalizing from a case

C. Naturalistic generalization

An actual problem situation

CASE

CASE

CASE

A repertoire of cases

Modes of generalizing from a case

B. Theory generating

THEORY

CASE

+

FACTS

A. Logic of replication

The domain of the theory

THEORY (Hypothesis)

+

CASE

C. Naturalistic generalization

An actual problem situation

CASE

CASE

CASE

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