Does the Unity of Science have a Future?

Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 17:263-275 (2014)
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The program of logical positivism gave inspiration to the unity of science movement. The movement carried the belief that all sciences, including the social sciences and the humanities, ought to share some common language if these disciplines were to be considered genuine sciences

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10.1007/978-3-319-01899-7_19

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