Theory construction as disciplined imagination
Generates many heterogeneous conjectures about a problem and selects among them with criteria declared in advance, following Weick (1989).
ExampleExample · follows Weick, K. E. (1989)theoretical
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By Jun Sato (example)
How studies reach it
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Disciplines it reaches
Solid: published studies. Light: examples.
Computed from the records on this site: what each study, template and specialist names as used, which study extends which, and who authored what. 5 studies in total.
- Input
- A problem statement and your literature
- Output
- A selected set of conjectures with the reasons for their selection, and boundary conditions
Steps
- 1 specialist
- 2 checkDeclare criteriaThe selection criteria must be written down before any conjecture is generated. Halts otherwise.
- 3 specialists, parallelThought trialsSeveral specialists generate conjectures independently, each drawing on a different field.
- 4 specialistSelectionApplies the declared criteria to every conjecture and records why each one was kept or dropped.
- 5 checkCoherence checkThe selected conjectures must not contradict each other; contradictions are reported with the propositions involved.
- 6 specialist
Technical details
Template id disciplined-imagination.
| Step | Id in the template file | Specialists |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Problem statement | problem_statement | second_order_theorist |
| 2. Declare criteria | declare_criteria | |
| 3. Thought trials | thought_trials | conjecture_generator |
| 4. Selection | selection | selection_judge |
| 5. Coherence check | coherence_check | |
| 6. Boundary conditions | boundary_conditions | selection_judge |
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Description
Data model- Discipline
- Organization scienceGeneral
- Method family
- Theoretical
- Design
- not specified
- Research stage
- HypothesesFormal modeling
- Authors
- Jun Sato (Methodology, Conceptualization)
- Usage
- not used in published research yet · Examples: 3 example studies
- Source
- Example
- Record
- template:disciplined-imagination · JSON
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Required of every template. - ✓Execution reliability · Analysis code ran and wrote a parseable, non-empty result
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Not applicable. This method produces no computed numbers to match. - ○Citations · Every reference resolves to an existing publication via OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar or Crossref
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