How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and th

How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and th

Shapiro traces the genesis of the fact, a modern concept that originated not in natural science but in legal discourse. She follows the concept's evolution and

Originally published in German in 1935, this monograph anticipated solutions to problems of scientific progress, the truth of scientific fact and the role of er