Interpretation and Explanation in the Human Sciences

State University of New York Press (1993)
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Refutes the methodological separatists who hold that the logic of explanation and testing in the human sciences is fundamentally different than in the natural sciences, and develops complementary accounts for interpretation and explanation, ...

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