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Eysenck’s paper is about metatheoretical and substantive theoretical issues. Since I am almost wholly in agreement on the metatheoretical issues, I shall pass them over in silence (especially since I also believe that the best justification for this or that approach to science is simply to get on with it and show what it can achieve). And since a cardinal feature of Eysenck’s approach to science is that substantive theories must stand or fall by their success in accounting for empirical data, I shall concentrate in this commentary on a few key points at which one of Eysenck’s own theories is in danger of foundering (for a fuller treatment, see Gray, 1981).
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Gray, J.A. (1984). Problems with Parameters. In: Royce, J.R., Mos, L.P. (eds) Annals of Theoretical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6450-8_16
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