Commentary on Campbell’s “What Is the Role of Generalization in Psychiatry?”

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Campbell’s contribution investigates the possible function of scientific laws in psychopathology, specifically the idea that the standard notion of scientific law could function in the way it has traditionally done in scientific explanation. An important way of thinking about this, as outlined by Campbell, is to introduce scientific laws as general axioms that act as premises in a deductive argument through a covering law. Properties of an individual case then feature as the explanandum . Variants on this approach generally emulate Aristotle’s well-known modus ponens argument scheme that deduces the mortality of Socrates from the premises that all men are mortal and that Socrates is a man. Although many different theories of explanation have been produced over the past century, I think it is fair to say that most working scientists have something like this model in mind when they think about explanations of individual cases.

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