This groundbreaking book provides a perspective on two alternative and competing views of the role of models in the development of theories and the advance of scientific understanding – namely, the syntactic and semantic approaches.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2014-12-02
Language: English
Number of Pages: 176
Edition: 1
Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..