From: "matthew piscioneri" <mpiscioneri-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Adorno & Positivism
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 01:02:36 +0000


Ralph,

As you are probably aware, this is very close to Habermas's line in 
_Knowledge & Human Interests_:

>It is not true that science was or is positivistic.  Positivism is an 
>ideology of science, one among many competing conceptions.  Yes, the social 
>sciences adopted a scientism justified by a conception of the natural 
>sciences (quantitative, predictive, etc.).

It makes sense to me.

mattP.

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