Freyer grounded scientific status in three distinct epistemic attitudes.

Evidence

The answer Freyer himself gave was that he saw a conscious will to knowledge', a marked epistemic attitude’, as being the precondition for the scientific character of forms of knowledge. He distinguished between three forms of epistemic attitude, corresponding to three differently structured types of objects and three forms of relation to life in these objects. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2435

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Freyer’s core thesis: epistemic attitude, not method, grounds each science’s legitimacy — key to his typology of the sciences.
• XREF: connects to: Freyer grounded natural science’s attitude in a primary technological will to cultivate the earth. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2436