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DOI | 10.1002/2016WR020078 |
DebatesHypothesis testing in hydrology: Pursuing certainty versus pursuing uberty | |
Baker, Victor R. | |
2017-03-01 | |
发表期刊 | WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH |
ISSN | 0043-1397 |
EISSN | 1944-7973 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 53期号:3 |
文章类型 | Editorial Material |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | Modern hydrology places nearly all its emphasis on science-as-knowledge, the hypotheses of which are increasingly expressed as physical models, whose predictions are tested by correspondence to quantitative data sets. Though arguably appropriate for applications of theory to engineering and applied science, the associated emphases on truth and degrees of certainty are not optimal for the productive and creative processes that facilitate the fundamental advancement of science as a process of discovery. The latter requires an investigative approach, where the goal is uberty, a kind of fruitfulness of inquiry, in which the abductive mode of inference adds to the much more commonly acknowledged modes of deduction and induction. The resulting world-directed approach to hydrology provides a valuable complement to the prevailing hypothesis- (theory-) directed paradigm. Plain Language Summary This commentary suggests that a world-directed, investigative approach to hydrology may serve as a productive complement to the prevailing hypothesis- (theory-) directed, approaches. The emphasis of the former on discovery has the potential to be transformative for investigative hydrology. |
英文关键词 | hypothesis testing modeling philosophy |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000400160500002 |
WOS关键词 | MODELS |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Limnology ; Water Resources |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Marine & Freshwater Biology ; Water Resources |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/20470 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | Univ Arizona, Dept Hydrol & Atmospher Sci, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Baker, Victor R.. DebatesHypothesis testing in hydrology: Pursuing certainty versus pursuing uberty[J]. WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,2017,53(3). |
APA | Baker, Victor R..(2017).DebatesHypothesis testing in hydrology: Pursuing certainty versus pursuing uberty.WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,53(3). |
MLA | Baker, Victor R.."DebatesHypothesis testing in hydrology: Pursuing certainty versus pursuing uberty".WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 53.3(2017). |
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