adjective Date: 1912 relating to, being, or making use of the method of proposing hypotheses and testing their acceptability or falsity by determining whether their logical consequences are consistent with observed data
HYPOTHETICO-DEDUCTIVE
Meaning of HYPOTHETICO-DEDUCTIVE in English
Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012