This article discusses the concept of evidential reasoning in the context of qualitative research methods in the social sciences. A conceptualization of qualitative evidential reasoning is proposed. This conceptualization is based on the analysis of an example of qualitative methods applied to the study of music education. I argue that this conceptualization identifies specific and nontrivial conditions for qualitative evidential reasoning and, at the same time, supports the claim that there is no essential methodological separation regarding evidence between quantitative and qualitative methods.

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定性研究方法与证据推理

本文在社会科学的定性研究方法的背景下讨论了证据推理的概念。提出了定性证据推理的概念化。这种概念化是基于对应用于音乐教育研究的定性方法示例的分析。我认为，这种概念化确定了定性证据推理的特定条件和非平凡条件，同时，支持了以下观点：定量方法和定性方法之间没有本质上的方法分离。