7 Empirical methods

The interpretative method:

The empirical foundation for selecting domains on the basis of physical events and socio-psychological actions by human beings.

Abstractions from the fundamental interpretative method:

• Observation: perception and measurement
• Structuring: collection and experimentation
  1. Corpus-based: data as `objets trouvés', in large quantities
  2. Experimental: structured data
• Integration, functional modelling, simulation