Empirical research method inherently negates the coherent significance a final report must claim.

Evidence

The lack of people capable of doing the `write-up’ for studies, often remarked upon, cannot be explained by any lack of literary talent. A report of this sort is not a matter of mere literary practice, but demands complete comprehension of the research. The explanation lies, rather, in the aporia that a final report of this sort has to provide a kind of coherent significance, while the immanent significance of the method it is all based on is precisely the negation of coherent significance, a dissolution into mere facticity. Theory is therefore merely given lip-service, since the tendency immanent within the research does not have the acquisition of theory from facts as its goal at all. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2118

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The aporia that the method’s immanent tendency is the negation of coherent significance, making theory mere lip-service, is a dense, paradigm-level insight about the incompatibility of empirical method and theory.
• XREF: connects to: Empirical-analytic sciences secretly carry a technical cognitive interest masked as value-freedom. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2423

Broader Connections

• Empirical-analytic sciences secretly carry a technical cognitive interest masked as value-freedom. #expands (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2423