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Dialogue on informatic philosophy of behavioral sciences: Positivist bias misses the symbol‐system point

Author(s) -

Frischknecht Federico

Publication year - 1987

Publication title -

behavioral science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371

H-Index - 45

eISSN - 1099-1743

pISSN - 0005-7940

DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830320307

Subject(s) - symbol (formal) , positivism , facticity , epistemology , point (geometry) , philosophy of science , psychology , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , mathematics , geometry

Except for a few misunderstandings that I will try to dispel, Dr. van Gigch's use of the metalinguistic framework is, of course, the same I refer to in my paper. Albeit there is a profound epistemological disagreement: he believes that he is viewing a world which exists independently of the ways we build its facticity; I am concerned with the symbol system (Newell & Simon, 1976) with which social reality is constructed (Clegg, 1983, 124).

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