Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Epistematics


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The result was   redirect to Deductive reasoning. PhilKnight (talk) 18:09, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Epistematics

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Inscrutable stub that seems to be an essay/neologism/original research. The only reference is an equally impenetrable (to me, at least) paper by one Chiara Carlino, who I believe to be the article's creator: User:C Chiara. Others raised the same concerns about this article back in 2007. Reyk YO!  07:20, 5 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Redirect to deductive reasoning. As the opposite of inductive reasoning, it is definitionally identical to deductive reasoning and is therefore redundant.  --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran (talk) 08:42, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect as Falcon Kirtaran suggests. Having had a skim through the linked paper, I can't see what distinguishes epistematic reasoning from deductive reasoning, which given the article's creator suggests this article may just be an excuse to publicise his/her paper on the subject. Possibly the paper has some useful information in itself, I'm no expert on the topic - but certainly it seems this article is never going to be anything but a substantial duplication of deductive reasoning. ~ mazca  t 17:39, 5 August 2008 (UTC)


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