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This chapter explores the current formation of modern science and the relations between its various disciplines. It focuses on sociology and mathematics and explains how these disciplines were developed into opposing positions: the former being considered as least scientific, while the latter is considered its pinnacle. However, a closer look reveals that this tension between science and social science is redoubled from within sociology itself, in the form of methodological divides such as the (in)famous qualitative (inductive logic) and quantitative (deductive logic). It is here that retroductive logic mediates the tensed relations between sociology (or words) and mathematics (or numbers) demonstrating the multiple as the shared, intuitive basis for both. |
