%0 Journal Article %T Construtivismo cognitivo e estat¨ªstica bayesiana %A Stern %A Julio Michael %J Scientiae Studia %D 2006 %I Universidade de S?o Paulo %R 10.1590/S1678-31662006000400003 %X in this paper, some epistemological, ontological, and sociological issues are investigated, concerning the statistical significance of sharp hypotheses in scientific research, within the framework offered by cognitive constructivism and fbst - the full bayesian significance test. the constructivist framework is contrasted to those furnished by decision theory and falsificationism, the traditional epistemological approaches to orthodox bayesian statistics and to frequentist statistics. %K autopoiesis %K eigen-solutions %K cognitive constructivism %K epistemology %K sharp hypotheses %K statistical significance %K systems theory. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1678-31662006000400003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en