The comparison between positivist and relativist
Understanding the user in low energy housing: a comparison of positivist and phenomenological approaches
... relationship between the home and its occupants is also emotional as well as practical and technical and that physical interventions and material changes in the home can have far reaching consequences, including ...
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Understanding the user in low energy housing: a comparison of positivist and phenomenological approaches
... relationship between the home and its occupants is also emotional as well as practical and technical and that physical interventions and material changes in the home can have far reaching consequences, including ...
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Guidelines for Conducting Positivist Case Study Research in Information Systems
... Four case studies of the requirements definition phase of systems development projects were conducted in order to empirically test the theoretical framework and propositions. Literal replication was used in selecting the ...
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“Wildness” as a metaphor for self-definition of the colonised subject in the Positivist period in Poland
... It was Frederick II of Prussia who first referred to Poles as Indians. Ludwik Powidaj (1830–1882), a significant Polish historian and publicist of the age, argued that the king had said: “I will make attempts to ...
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Was Heidegger a Relativist?
... As I see it, however, the key is that the dependence of truth on Dasein won’t entail relativism in any significant sense if all relevant properties of entities remain independent of Dasein. Suppose, for example, that the ...
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How to Be a Relativist About Truth
... issue between temporalists and ...ference between the proposition that p and the proposition that strictly speaking, p, and there can only be such a difference if propositional truth is relativized to a ...
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Non-Positivist Methodologies.pdf
... Symbolic interactionists have been affected by Weber’s ideas on Verstehen, as well as by others of Weber’s ideas. Symbolic interactionism was developed, in large part, out of Simmel’s interest in action and interaction ...
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On relativist approaches to many-one identity
... 3 Let me mention two radical options, just to set them aside. One could argue that there is no real plurality, thus rejecting assumption (5), or that there is no unity, thus rejecting assumption (2) of the argument. ...
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Sources in Legal Positivist Theories
... creation. In contrast, theorists (p. 329) like Kelsen or those who argue for positivism on the ground that it will spur a beneficial critical attitude to law can acknowledge the possibility that treaty organizations ...
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Three Positivist Disputes in the 1960s
... difference between physical and social phenomena was also of crucial importance in the ...gap between analytical and continental philosophy to an extent that is hardly found anywhere else at this ...
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PAR. Positivist Organization Theories
... PAR dressed the consequences of NPM on public adminis- tration and public managers, and all spoke to how NPM affected the tension between politics and ad- ministration. Several scholars expressed concerns that ...
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The Varieties of Modality: Kantian Prospects for a Relativist Account
... 4/B286–7) Again we have the negative claim that modal concepts do not add to the concept of an object, alongside the positive claim that they concern a re- lation between that concept and our cognitive faculties, ...
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Origins and Challenges of a Positivist Approach to International Law
... distinguish between the social, political, eco- nomic motives, which make up the reasons for having a certain rule, and the actual, le- gal procedure by which the rule becomes ...
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A CLASSICAL AND POSITIVIST PERSPECTIVE OF UNDERSTANDING CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR
... It is therefore not surprising that the multi-disciplinary approach has been adopted at tackling the menace of crime and criminal behaviour in all ramifications. Hence, the study of criminology focuses on the role of ...
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This Is What a Historicist and Relativist Feminist Philosophy of Disability Looks Like
... Before I consider the claims of one feminist disability theorist who aligns herself with the new “materialist-feminism,” let me point out, furthermore, that our self-perceptions and self-understandings, behavior, habits, ...
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Crisis and ‘law of motion’ in economics: a critique of positivist Marxism
... Crisis itself is also an object of study. It is a regularly‐recurring moment of accumulation. It is not an accident, a ‘deviation’ or a surprise; it is constitutive of capitalism. I will criticize the popular notion that ...
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A Positivist Approach to Pigouvian Taxes based on an Evolutionary Algorithm
... distinguishes between normative approaches such as those cited above, which identify a policy ideal, and positivist approaches that take into account government ...
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Are randomised controlled trials positivist? Reviewing the social science and philosophy literature to assess positivist tendencies of trials of social interventions in public health and health services
... ” between staff and students and between students ’ academic and broader learning, which then encourages more students to exert agency to commit to school and avoid engaging in risk be- haviours such as ...
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Is a Substantive, Non-Positivist United States Environmental Law Possible?
... Spring 2012] Is a Substantive, Non-Positivist U.S. Environmental Law Possible? 161 inconsistent state behavior or mandate a relatively stable set of socially desired outcomes by the private sector. The current ...
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Republican Monsters: The Cultural Construction of American Positivist Criminology, 1767-1920
... violence. Between gothic novels and frontier gothic chapbooks, late eighteenth century Americans had a preponderance of literary and cultural images of monstrosity and deviance to draw on for interpreting the ...
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