why do you think theories cannot be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt

The problem with the standard conception of psychology as a science of behavior and mental processes is that it has ended up by establishing dualistic ontology and reasoning in the psychological science with feedback from the positivist natural scientific method (Packer 2011 Slife et al.

say, “no practice of inquiry is ruled out a priori multiple goals of inquiry are rendered plausible and multiple pathways may claim a situated legitimacy” (Gergen et al. Both assume an open pluralistic turn toward the Psyche as “complex, subjective, meaningful, and mysterious” (Valsiner et al. 2015) and the other in the European tradition with The Yokohama Manifesto for a Psychology as the Science of Human Being (Valsiner et al. Two important movements have arisen independently, one in the heart of the American Psychological Association itself with Division 5 recently renamed Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, including the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology and the Journal of Qualitative Psychology (Gergen et al.

A certain spirit of the times seems to require a review of psychology as a science of the mind and behavior as most established definition (American Psychological Association 2016 Gerrig 2014 Schacter et al.

Why do you think theories cannot be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt