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Page 1 of 4 There is a long discourse in social science regarding whether a piecemeal approach or a totalitarian approach is more rewarding in delivering the more accurate insights (the dispute on positivism (Adorno, 1962; Popper, 1962). A misleading argument is based on history: it claims that as positivistic natural sciences have reached quite a remarkable understanding of the physical world, social sciences should use the same technique. The argument is false, because – following Habermas (Welsch, 1998) - natural science deals with the exploration and description of the objectively existing world, which functions based on eternal laws, wherein social sciences deal with the realities constructed by human minds, the life-world, which is constantly changing. Thus different methods have to be used because the natures of the subjects are different. However, it seems that with the advent of the complexity paradigm in the natural sciences, the unity of sciences is in possible reach again, because rigid cause effect relationships are abandoned in the (currently dominant) natural sciences as systems are looked at as a whole.
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