--- On Fri, 2/6/09, Philip Pilkington a bias.
I believe that the similarities between this approach and Marx's are striking. Note how he allows his conceptual framework to gradually form out of the observations themselves rather than imposing them on the material. Marx is constantly contradicting himself and thus allowing patterns to form of their own accord. Its all about giving primacy to the object over the subject (or in Marxese: giving primacy to man in general rather than certain men in particular); that's what Adorno called non-identity thinking. ^^^^ CB: Yes, man, humans in general, not a certain man , human, in particular. However, humans in general impact this scientific process by particular human individual, (Marx, in this case),being an ensemble of social relations ( as Carrol always says). Marx is sccial individual. His scientific investigation is impacted by Smith and Ricardo's work, and millions of other people. So, he brings their theory to bare right there as he turns the empirical data over and over and upside down, and around, looking at it from this side then that side, So, the conceptual framework doesn't just come out of the data, It also comes out of his ensemble of social relations and the concepts of his "ancestors", his language, which he got from other people, concepts from other scientists., etc.,
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