Truth-condition in social sciences. A hermeneutic perspective
Truth-condition in social sciences. A hermeneutic perspective

Summary/Abstract: The topic this survey proposes for debate is the issue of truth in social sciences. Configuring the content of the notion of truth so that it should be functional within a social theory is a problematic matter. There are two sources to generate this, namely: a) the historical dynamics of society; b) the double methodology of scientific research, respectively: application of the methods of natural sciences, and/or assumption of the interpretational methods related to the specificity of social sciences. With hermeneutics, there is the possibility of unicity in the form of complementarity, as it regards truth both as a correspondence of propositions with the reality described, and at the same time, in relation with a cultural paradigm, with the interests for knowledge and the beliefs to be encountered in the existential project assumed.

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