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Marx and Wittgenstein (2)
"Two rival perspectives have been dominant in the social sciences. They can be termed, roughly, objectivism and subjectivism, although the debate between these perspectives has appeared under a number of rubrics and involves a variety of not always clearly related controversies.......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-06 11:15:42 | Rating:

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Marx and Wittgenstein (3)
"With some reservations, objectivism can be characterized as the social scientific expression of positivism. While positivism is not a unitary doctrine, it generally involves a sense-data conception of empiricism, a commitment to precise quantification, and the belief that......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-06 12:34:14 | Rating:

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Marx and Wittgenstein (4)
"There are few social scientists who would identify themselves as positivists in any strict sense, and fewer still who would confine the conduct of social scientific inquiry to the canons of strict positivism. Indeed, many positivist doctrines have been superseded in the natural......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-06 14:22:32 | Rating:

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Marx and Wittgenstein (5)
"The subjectivist conception of social science emerged in Germany in the late nineteenth century. The dominant intellectual current of the time was neo-Kantian idealism. There was an affinity between Kantianism and the aim of distinguishing the natural from the social sciences, because......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-07 22:03:50 | Rating:

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Marx and Wittgenstein (6)
"While there are several points of contention between objectivism and subjectivism, the key issue in this dispute is the 'mental' character of the social scientific subject matter. In large measure; the problem of mind in the study of human behavior is why there is a......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-09 19:22:18 | Rating:

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There have been, and there are, scientists who believe in some form of creationism. When they observe the world, they believe they are observing the work of God, or the word of God. Isaac Newton was a creationist, and a scientist. Newton was an alchemist, as well as a physicist and......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-09 19:53:24 | Rating:

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Marx and Wittgenstein (7)
"Despite their very different programs for social scientific explanation, stemming from their contrary dispositions of the problem of mind, objectivists and subjectivists share a central premise: a concept of mind as an essentially private entity that is inaccessible to the methods of......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-11 20:15:01 | Rating:

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Marx and Wittgenstein (8)
"Objectivists and subjectivists respond differently to mind-body dualism. Objectivists, operating with a concept of empirical science as resting on sensory observation, are inclined to conclude that the essentially private nature of mind requires that references to the mental must be......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-13 08:31:50 | Rating:

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In a true democracy, those who vote with the minority preference will have had their input into the ultimate decision. The citizens who voted with the minority decided, just as did the majority. Both decided. Both voted. The minority wants much more than what their one vote......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-13 12:38:32 | Rating:

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In any democratically-organized association, it helps each member to actively participate in every democratic process and procedure, including discussion, debate, and decision- making. It helps for the majority to know that there are other opinions and opposed preferences. It helps that......Read More