id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_tgniclpogvda3cogh5la5kriri Philip O. Sijuwade Recent Trends in the Philosophy of Science: Lessons for Sociology 2007 12 .pdf application/pdf 8352 473 49 of the method of natural science to the study of ABSTRACT Auguste Comte's positivist claim of sociology was readily accepted by the succeeding generations of techniques of empirical research rather than with the logic of scientific procedure. made to develop general theories, these were far from satisfactory. been trying to emulate, the terms science and scientific methodology have no longer the same meaning as in Newton's the applicability of the methods of natural science objective truth of scientific knowledge. concerning the nature of scientific knowledge, method employed by science, the validity of the observation-based inductive method, which the idea of necessary truth and the correspondence theory because he believed that we have of empirical sciences led Hume to reject the idea accepted view that empirical sciences used method of science and towards scientific practice, meaning of science and the scientific method, and the relation between scientific theory and ./cache/work_tgniclpogvda3cogh5la5kriri.pdf ./txt/work_tgniclpogvda3cogh5la5kriri.txt