The Differences Between the Humanities and the Social Sciences

Diltai would have a really big problem with, quote, the social sciences becoming sciences or trying to model themselves after the hard sciences. For him, studying sociology, anthropology, psychology fundamentally involved lived experience which is not amenable to scientific explanation. And so I think he would actually be all for holding a firm boundary between those two things.

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