A brief remark on compatibility-seeking research

[This is one of the comments (dated on Feb 7, 2023) on Chapter 1: From Compatibility to Testability — Some historical background at ResearchGate.]

Toward the end of Section 2 in Chapter 1: From Compatibility to Testability — Some historical background in The Theory and Practice of Language Faculty Science, freely downloadable at: 10.1515/9783110724790, I state, “The compatibility-seeking research orientation as addressed above seems to have remained in “syntax research”, and in my view it is actually even more conspicuous now than it was when Hoji 1985 was written.” The fact that we seem to find a number of papers published in journals, including “prestigious” ones, which present literally no disconfirmable predictions and only address confirmable predictions is empirical “evidence” for this. Many practicing linguists perhaps do not understand what I mean. Graduate education and practice in the field at large over the years seem to me to have led to the culture in question. We, of course, will continue to try our best promoting the idea that it is possible to pursue rigorous testability in the form of deducing definite predictions that include disconfirmable predictions (about an individual) and obtain and replicate experimental results precisely in line with such predictions, dealing with the language faculty.