Dialectics sought a critique of science that absorbs metaphysics’ corrections without rejecting science

Evidence

In the face of the irrationalist rejection of the sciences in various forms of metaphysics, dialectics was intended at the same time to present, as an alternative, a critique of science which would go further, and which would at the same time be able to integrate within itself the corrections which metaphysics could provide. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 198

Categorization

• DEFINE: Positions dialectics as simultaneously pro-critique and anti-irrationalist — a precise conceptual location between positivism and metaphysics.
• XREF: connects to: Negative Dialectics positioned itself against both the philosophy of science and traditional epistemology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 643; Negative dialectics preserves undefined experience as a counterweight to philosophies of science — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2578; Denying metaphysics in favor of science is itself a metaphysical position — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 294 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Negative Dialectics positioned itself against both the philosophy of science and traditional epistemology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 643; Negative dialectics preserves undefined experience as a counterweight to philosophies of science — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2578; Denying metaphysics in favor of science is itself a metaphysical position — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 294 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Dialectical reason rejects supplementing professional science with metaphysics, reconstructing reality from related concepts instead. #complicates (0.76) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 199