Styles of scientific reasoning

A general philosophy-of-science term for a mode of reasoning — statistical, taxonomic, postulational, experimental, and so on — that an entire tradition or community of practitioners inhabits across a datable historical trajectory of emergence and maturation. Introduced by Ian Hacking (1982), building directly on A. C. Crombie's six-fold taxonomy of "styles of scientific thinking."

Matters to this vault as the most promising general-philosophy-of-science candidate for naming its unnamed in-between bridge category — two investigations sharing a method across unconnected referents, with no deliberate juxtaposer (observation-vaults-in-between-bridge-category-not-exactly-named-by-located-literature) — and the one lead checked to primary rather than left as a WebSearch synthesis. It fails to match: a style is predicated of a whole tradition with its own genealogy, not of two isolated, independently-motivated studies.

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