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The Limits of Concept Formation in Natural Science

1902 · by Heinrich Rickert

Argues that the natural sciences form general concepts and laws, while history forms concepts of singular things by selecting what matters through relation to values; the logical frame of the Baden School, developed from Windelband’s distinction and taken up by Max Weber.

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