Methodology for Agricultural Economists: An Instrumentalist Perspective
从工具主义视角出发，论证新证伪主义方法论对判断假说验证充分性的价值，并指出修辞、形而上学等原则会混淆逻辑基础，而工具主义方法论能促进理论与实证研究的进步。
Abstract As an instrument for refining judgments of the adequacy of hypothesis validation procedures, neo‐falsificationist methodology has important value. Appeals to principles of rhetoric, metaphysics, and literary criticism obfuscate the logical foundation for judging the evidential basis for validity. Falsificationist and positivist methodology are insufficient to facilitate the processes of systematic critique of theoretical systems in their proper role as functioning means for directing the hypothecation and testing processes. Instrumentalist methodology makes such criticism integral to an ongoing, problem‐focused scientific inquiry process, thereby fostering theoretical and empirical research progressiveness.