Systematologi:

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Abstract

The first partof the paper contains: 1) the definition, 2) the systematic placement and 3) the historical evalution of »Systematology«.
1. »Systematology« = the comparative, metatheoretical study of scientific texts ( = »theories«).
2. »Systematology« is a subdiscipline of the general metascience, which produces a general metatheory.
3. »Systematology« is developed as an integration of the main schools of philosophy of science.
The second part is a concentrated exposition of the systematological taxonomy: a descriptive
system for analyses and comparison of scientific texts ( = »theories«). Every text may be divided into 3 levels of abstraction:
1. The Metaleve! including the philosophical, metatheoretical and metodological presuppositions.
2. The Hypothetical level includes the hypotheses and explanatory models.
3. The Datalevet includes descriptions of concrete observations and more abstract, empirical generalisations.
To each level is developed a system of classifications (see the Appendix).
The third part describes the most important systematological research-results:
1. Tue development of the »Hypotheses-Quotient« (H.Q. ): a quantitative estimation of the testability of a theory. Tue H.Q. is calculated for 36 theories.
2. Description of some patterns of preference or paradigms, which are frequent in psychology.
3. Application of systematology in connection with a test of Kuhn's theory on the history of psychology.