Deductive Reasoning in Psychoanalytic Theorization
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pensamiento, empirismo, angustiaAbstract
There are two types of inference involved in the construction of knowledge, whether of common sense, scholarship or science. These are inductive and deductive inferences. The place of inductive inference is fundamental in so far as it is these inferences that enable us to establish the relationship of our ideas to reality. Nevertheless, deductive reasoning also contributes and can be used to good effect in theory building. This paper is a study of Freud's use of deductive reasoning in his development of psychoanalytic theory. Of particular interest are deductive inferences from theoretical ideas that work out the implications of these ideas for what should be observed if they are true. In this way deductive reasoning becomes the handmaiden for inductive reasoning.
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