“inductively” by way of direct appeals to observational backing, the constitutive posits of postulational theories holistically validated by way of indirect, explanatory appeals to observational backing, and purely formal claims expressing necessary conditions for the formulation of scientific hypotheses in general. From Wordnik.com. [Wilfrid Sellars] Reference
In particular, the epistemological contrast between two sorts of empirical generalizations ” those adopted on narrowly inductive grounds and those expressing constitutive principles of postulational theories adopted on broadly empirical, i.e., explanatory grounds ” enabled Sellars to distinguish among three different grades of “observational involvement”: observations and general claims individually validated. From Wordnik.com. [Wilfrid Sellars] Reference
Do you savvy the postulational notion in math? ". From Wordnik.com. [Rocket Ship Galileo]
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