Theory development and the logic of discovery.
The aim of this article is to discuss the importance of theory development within caring science and whether abduction, as a distinctive type of inference, can contribute to this. We need to understand the role of theory in our discipline, the strategies used to develop it, the criteria used to crit...
| Publicado en: | International Journal for Human Caring Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 36 - 43 |
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| Formato: | tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Publishing Company, Inc.
2010
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