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Metodologia badań społecznych w ujęciu Petrażyckiego
Methodology of Social Research according to Petrażycki

Author(s): Jan Woleński
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Philosophy of Law, Sociology of Law
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: theory; truth; adequacy; model; teoria; prawda; adekwatność; model

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the main ideas of Leon Petrażycki’s methodology of social sciences. The main focus concerns Petrażycki’s idea of adequate theory. The author tries to show that contemporary formal methodology of empirical sciences illuminates Petrażycki’s concept of adequate theory. In particular, the relation between adequacy and truth can be illuminated by using metalogical concepts.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 74
  • Page Range: 189-199
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish