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Is Philosophy Exceptional? A Corpus-Based, Quantitative Study.
- Source :
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Social Epistemology . 2023, Vol. 37 Issue 5, p666-683. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Drawing on the epistemology of logic literature on anti-exceptionalism about logic, we set out to investigate the following metaphilosophical questions empirically: Is philosophy special? Are its methods (dis)continuous with science? More specifically, we test the following metaphilosophical hypotheses empirically: philosophical deductivism, philosophical inductivism, and philosophical abductivism. Using indicator words to classify arguments by type (namely, deductive, inductive, and abductive arguments), we searched through a large corpus of philosophical texts mined from the JSTOR database (N = 435,703) to find patterns of argumentation. The results of our quantitative, corpus-based study suggest that deductive arguments are significantly more common than abductive arguments and inductive arguments in philosophical texts overall, but they are gradually and steadily giving way to non-deductive (i.e. inductive and abductive) arguments in academic philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *QUANTITATIVE research
*DATABASES
*TEXT mining
*PATTERN matching
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02691728
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Social Epistemology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 171339053
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2022.2109529