... that, "when it clearly produces new knowledge, the a priori character of the prediction is strongly affirmative, the more so in that it provides little opportunity for post hoc reasoning and avoids many biases that lurk in situations on which the scientist as foreknowledge" (Susser 716). The last criterion Susser discusses is coherence, stating that coherence involves the ... on the other hand, are more so social, ethical, and political values. She argues that, "non-epistemic values are a required part of the internal aspects of scientific reasoning for cases where inductive risk include...

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... method is building the observations and findings on the already found theory, whereas the opposite, finding the observations and findings and then building the theory on that, is called the inductive theory method. As it shows in this paper, our theoretical chapter is a large portion of this project which is due to our choice in using this method. Going into depth ... society and how much they care about it. All in all we think that this method fits with the way we want to investigate our empirical data, which is our reasoning behind choosing it. This method can provide much useful info...

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