Whoever Could Get Rid of the Context of Discovery/Context of Justification Dichotomy? A Proposal Based on Recent Developments in Clinical Research

Abstract

In his Art and Illusion, art historian Ernst Gombrich argues that the emergence and development of styles of pictorial representation depend on the availability of certain schemata, which can be documented. He himself documents the schemata responsible for the emergence and development of several styles. Nothing of this kind has been done as far as the growth of scientific knowledge is concerned. In this article we discuss whether is it possible to document something analogous to Gombrich's schemata that can be of crucial relevance for the development of clinical research.

Keywords:

• discovery context
• justification dichotomy
• developments in clinical research