Historical-Dialectical Scientific Method

A meta‑method for science that incorporates dialectical logic and historical materialism into scientific practice. It rejects the idea that science is purely inductive or hypothetico‑deductive, arguing that real scientific progress occurs through the identification and resolution of contradictions within existing theories. It emphasises that scientific knowledge is historically situated and that shifts in paradigms are driven not just by new data but by contradictions between theory and practice, or between different theoretical frameworks. It also insists that science must be self‑reflexive, studying its own history and social context.

Historical-Dialectical Scientific Method Example: “The historical‑dialectical scientific method explains why the wave‑particle debate in quantum mechanics didn’t end with one side winning—it was a contradiction that could only be resolved by a new synthesis (complementarity), which then opened up new contradictions.”

Historical-Dialectical Scientific Method by Abzugal May 1, 2026