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The Law of the Exclusive Muddle: Categories and Social Theory
Author(s) -
Olding Alan
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
the australian journal of anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.245
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1757-6547
pISSN - 1035-8811
DOI - 10.1111/j.1835-9310.1992.tb00151.x
Subject(s) - criticism , epistemology , law , sociology , work (physics) , scientific theory , philosophy , law and economics , political science , engineering , mechanical engineering
If the work of enquiry is to be carried on, it must be at once scientific and philosophic… if, in particular, the scientist is not philosophic, he will fall into confusions, he will rebuff philosophic criticism – he will lack a theory of categories, of sorts of problem, of ‘method’– especially he will be carried away by practical interests, by the interest of producing something or implementing a programme instead of finding something out (Anderson 1962:183).