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One method, or many?

On the axis: Scientific method · the sciences of mind and society

Does the method that tests the laws of nature hold for history, society, the mind? To explain by causes, as in physics, or to understand meanings from within, as Dilthey and Weber would have it: do the human sciences have their own logic, or does a single method govern all knowledge?

Anchors: Dilthey · Weber

leads to: Status of knowledge