Kosambi fused empirical evidence and theory in one unified procedure.

Evidence

For Kosambi was able to produce in a single sweep both a narrative of the empirical facts of Ancient India and the theoretical position, the very organic principle of narrativization, from which that narrative was to be assembled. He knew just as thoroughly the coins and the crops and the stones which he studied as he knew his Marxism, and he gave us, without compromising the one or the other, a Marxism that was appropriate to those coins, those crops, those stones. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1230

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Empirical fact-finding improves substantially with prior theoretical groundwork. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 986; Computational modelling is erasing the boundary between theory and experiment

Broader Connections

• Empirical fact-finding improves substantially with prior theoretical groundwork. #qualifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 986
• Computational modelling is erasing the boundary between theory and experiment #exemplifies (0.70)