Quetelet
rates and their explanation
pp. 60-91
Abstract
Comte's disdain for statistics had resonance beyond its echoes in the milder criticisms made by Mill in A System of Logic. Claude Bernard, the influential biologist and philosopher of experimentalism, who carefully distanced himself from Positivism in the course of the dispute over vitalism which pitted Pasteur against Comte's followers (Virtanen, 1960, pp. 2–4), shared in Comte's and Mill's suspicion of the claims of the statisticians.
Publication details
Published in:
Turner Stephen P. (1986) The search for a methodology of social science: Durkheim, Weber, and the nineteenth-century problem of cause, probability, and action. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 60-91
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-3461-5_4
Full citation:
Turner Stephen P. (1986) Quetelet: rates and their explanation, In: The search for a methodology of social science, Dordrecht, Springer, 60–91.