Adding Theoretical Grounding to Grounded Theory: Toward Multi-Grounded Theory by Göran Goldkuhl, Stefan Cronholm

“…The authors go beyond the pure inductivist approach in GT and add the explicit use of external theories. …”
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La théorie poppérienne de la confirmation scientifique by Youri Cabot

“…This problem is mainly discussed from an inductivist and probabilistic point of view, particularly by the means of Bayesian theories of confirmation. …”
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El problema Chomskiano de la adquisición del lenguaje by Luis Núñez Ladevéze

“…Likewise, the article explains why Saussure is not an inductivist, conductivist or associativist, as Chomsky tried to designate him. …”
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An analysis of Electricity History present in textbooks: Benjamin Franklin s case by Cibelle Celestino Silva, Ana Carolina Pimentel

“…Usually these narratives reinforce the idea of the existence of genius minds, value only the currently accepted scientific knowledge and transmit the empirical inductivist views on the scientific dynamics.…”
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The ‘shifting’ nature of theory in International Relations: why the future of the discipline is its Waltzian past by Eben Coetzee, Hussein Solomon

“… Within the discipline of International Relations (IR), ‘new’ conceptions of theory, specifically those subscribing to, on the one hand, an inductivist and empiricist conception of theory, and, on the other hand, a conception of theory as a loose collection of variables, have ostensibly challenged the conception of theory as advanced by Kenneth Waltz. …”
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A General Theory of Value and Money: Foundations of an Axiomatic Theory by Alan Freeman

“…It allows us to interrogate empirical evidence in a systematic way, and is therefore the necessary precondition for an inductivist, scientific enquiry into economic events, that is, an enquiry whose starting point is the explanation of facts. …”
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The ‘shifting’ nature of theory in International Relations: why the future of the discipline is its Waltzian past by Eben Coetzee, Hussein Solomon

“… Within the discipline of International Relations (IR), ‘new’ conceptions of theory, specifically those subscribing to, on the one hand, an inductivist and empiricist conception of theory, and, on the other hand, a conception of theory as a loose collection of variables, have ostensibly challenged the conception of theory as advanced by Kenneth Waltz. …”
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On some unwarranted tacit assumptions in cognitive neuroscience by Rainer eMausfeld

“…These four aspects pertain to the notion of explanation, to conceptions about which mental phenomena are singled out for inquiry, to an inductivist epistemology, and, in the wake of behaviouristic conceptions, to a bias favoring investigations of input-output relations at the expense of inquiries into internal principles. …”
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“Artificial societies” and the social sciences by Lansing, J. Stephen.

“…Logical views from Karl Popper in his speech in the German Sociological Association in 1961; Critical response from Theodor Adorno; Identification of the argument as a 'positivist dispute'; Popper's attack against the inductivist and naturalist concepts of science; Focus on descriptive statistics in the analysis of social forces.…”
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An evaluation of Global Management Accounting Principles in the sustainability of a South African mechanised piggery by Alick B. Burger, Susanna L. Middelberg

“…Research approach, design and method: The research design took the form of an exploratory case study and contextual applied research with an inductivist approach to qualitative research. Main findings: The findings include that, without pre-knowledge of GMAPs, Piggery A employed a large number of the concepts and principles described by GMAPs as best practice. …”
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Karl Popper’s Solution to the Problem of Induction and the Non-Justificationist Conception of Rationality by Dmytro Sepetyi

“…The first, explicitly described by Popper as his solution to the problem of induction, is the replacement of the inductivist account of the development of empirical knowledge, according to which cognition begins with observations of particular events and proceeds through inductive inferences to certainly true or highly probable theories-generalisations, with the hypothetico-deductivist account, according to which cognition begins with a problem and proceeds through conjecturing its possible solutions (advancing hypotheses) and attempts to falsify them by reproducible results of observations/experiments. …”
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The origin of life: an analysis of the nature of science in an YouTube educational video by Marinilde Tadeu Karat, Patrícia Montanari Giraldi

“…We could conclude that there is a predominance of the inductivist empirical conception in the analyzed video, which agrees with other research Works that analyzed the conceptions of Science teachers (GIL- PÉREZ et al.2001; SCHEID et al., 2007). …”
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The machinery question by Berg, M, Berg, Maxine L.

“…This empiricist scientific movement was also very congenial to the inductivist mood of political economy in the 1830's.…”

The Objectives of Science by David Miller

“…Scientific hypotheses emerge neither a posteriori, as inductivists hold, nor from some immaculate a priori source, but from sheer guesswork. …”
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Galilean Hydrostatic Paradox and Archimedes Law by Fernando Lang da Silveira, Alexandre Medeiros

“…Traditional pedagogy has underestimated the presence of some mysteries and paradoxes in Physics teaching. Naïve inductivistic approaches  in Science education have also contributed to the fact that some important theoretical assumptions are usually discarded. …”
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Is the financial resources spent in research in the field of Astrobiology justifiable? by Dimitar Mitrovica, Bruno Nascimento-Dias

“…The results point to the use of the principle of mediocrity by optimistic inductivists as a means of argumentation, trying to establish that the practice of this research is based on good science and justifiable. …”
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VIGENCIA DE CONCEPTOS Y SABERES CLÁSICOS. RELEYENDO Y REMEMORANDO A VIEJOS MAESTROS by Jose Manuel Rubio Recio

“…"Gestalt perception" and inductivists empirism continues being important.</p><p class="p1"><strong>KEY WORDS:</strong></p><p class="p1">Methodology, Philosophy and Science, Geography.…”
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