A scientific realist approach to examining mechanisms in context bridges ____.

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A scientific realist approach to examining mechanisms in context aims to identify general causal laws that explain how mechanisms work in specific contexts (nomothetic approach), while also taking into account the idiosyncratic features of the particular case being studied (idiographic approach). This approach bridges the idiographic and nomothetic approaches to causation.

A Scientific Realist Approach to Examining Mechanisms in Context Bridges