ARISTOTELIAN DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES
ARISTOTELIAN DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES

Summary/Abstract: The opposition between natural and social sciences started in ancient Greece as a relationship between theoretical and practical sciences. This opposition was set for the first time by Aristotle while asserting his theory of soul and his methodology of science. Thus, different functions of soul are responsible for these two kinds of sciences and, similarly, there are two logical instruments for each science to discover their scientific truths. If theoretical sciences use the apodictical syllogism that concludes from necessary premises, the practical sciences make use of the dialectical syllogism that starts from probable premises. The theoretical/ practical opposition is mirrored at the methodological level through the pair of terms apodictic/ dialectic.

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