Citations:inductivism


 * 1958–1960, R.S. Peters, The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition), chapter i: “Types of Explanation in Psychological Theories”, page 2:
 * A contributory factor, too, has been the understandable determination of psychologists to make their enquiries ‘scientific’. This has led them to cast their theories in a mould dictated by the current conception of scientific method. For a long time this was thought to be the method of induction; and so systems of psychology like introspectionism and behaviourism, developed, which were products of what Popper calls ‘inductivism’ — attempts to build up generalisations on the basis of carefully scrutinized data.