Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 33)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 33)

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Diagram 1: Empiricist Ladder of Abstraction (40)
THEORETICAL LEVEL
General Empirical General Empirical
category category
Ar ’ Ba
A: Bs
Avz Be-
Aa Bi
Particular Particular
Observable Observable
OBSERVATIONAL LEVEL
From the table we can see that particular conjunctions of
events Ai:- Bi, Ae- Be, etc. are worked up into general
empirical correlations between constant conjunctions of
events of a similar form. Thus, falling apples, falling
books, falling aeroplanes, etc. are all particular cases of a
Summarising general principle, namely the Newtonian Law of
Gravity. We shall bring this particular point out in a formal
manner when we consider positivism. Suffice, for the moment,
to note that the categories are general and not universal.
Empiricist Ontology
In this section I shall consider the metaphysical -— in the
real sense of both "meta" and "physical" - or the ontological
assumptions implicit in the empiricist account of science.
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