In 1981, A. C. Crombie identified six “styles of scientific thinking in the European tradition” that constitute our ways of reasoning in the natural sciences. In this paper, I try to show that these styles constitute reasoning in the social sciences as well, and that, as a result, the differences between reasoning about the physical world and about human beings are not so different as some interpretevists have supposed.
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DOI: 10.1007/BF01064117
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Full citation:
(1993). Reasoning in the social sciences. Synthese 97 (2), pp. 249-267.
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