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The Paradox of Positivism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Dylan Riley
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Special Section: Commentary on The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
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Social Science History , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , Spring 2007 , pp. 115 - 126
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2007 

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