<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Adam,</div><div><br></div><div>I believe that the term 'discovery procedure' was first used by Chomsky in the early 1950s to characterize the goals and methodology that were prevalent among many American structuralists at the time. As he noted, their goal was to 'discover' the grammar of a language by applying a set of procedures to the raw data. He argued that science doesn't work that way. Rather, the most we could hope for, Chomsky said, is an 'evaluation procedure' for deciding between two candidate grammars that had been constructed by the researcher. The term 'discovery procedure' was later adopted by at least some structuralists. As you noted, it appeared in a book title by Longacre.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes for the holidays.</div><div><br></div><div>Fritz<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>Frederick J. Newmeyer<br>Professor Emeritus, University of Washington<br></div>Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 at 02:21, TALLMAN Adam <<a href="mailto:Adam.TALLMAN@cnrs.fr">Adam.TALLMAN@cnrs.fr</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I wonder if anyone has read any sources that explicitly discuss the difference or relation between (in theory and/or in practice) between 'diagnostics', which are used to link up theoretical models with new data, and 'discovery procedures', which are disparaged,
but seem to be, in some ways, ancestors of the former notion.</div>
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<div>Attached are some relevant citations if you've never heard of the notion 'discovery procedure'.<br>
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<div>best & happy holidays,<br>
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