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1894 · by Wilhelm Windelband

Rectoral address at Strasbourg that introduced the contrast between nomothetic sciences, which seek general laws, and idiographic sciences, which describe singular events; it was disputed by Dilthey and became the starting point of Rickert’s theory of science.

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