09-19-2013, 11:59 PM
There's never going to be a theory of that scope which will be satisfying. They all have shortcomings and limitations. The test of a good theory is going to be how useful it is compared to some alternative method of explanation. Most investigators agree that the more parsimonious the better. And that's just what Larson attempted to provide. Unfortunately he did not explain most of his inductive research which led him to many (non-obvious) conclusions. What he has left us with is a system of theory based soley on deductive lines of reasoning which follow the consequences of a set of fundamental postulates.He wanted the theory to be simple and self-contained
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