One reality supports many independent scientific viewpoints of it

Evidence

There is always one reality and we cannot grasp it scientifically in its immediacy and wholeness but must consider it from a number of different viewpoints and thereby make it into a plurality of mutually independent scientific subject matters. This applies, too, to those psychological phenomena whose contents fail to combine into an autonomous spatial world and which are not strikingly set apart from their psychic reality. Language, for instance, is certainly constructed out of psychological forces and for psychological purposes. But its forms and laws are treated by the science of linguistics with complete neglect of the realization (a realization which alone is given) that this is the object; they are treated exclusively through the presentation and analysis of the construction of the content and the forms that result from it. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 207

Categorization

• XREF: Methodological grounding for the essay’s synthesis of Simmel, Lofland and Cole: three theorists, three viewpoints on one urban reality. — connects to: Mathematical facts are true independently of human thought — G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology, 264; The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210; Alternative maps of interpretation yield fresh perspective on familiar material — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 319 (+7 more)

Related

• Rigorous methods reveal narrower slices of reality (similarity 0.82)
• The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins (similarity 0.82)
• Humanity’s viewpoint and society’s viewpoint remain in principle distinct (similarity 0.79)
• Truth of a theory is independent of either its productivity or its non-application (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins #corroborates (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210
• Large-scale systems enable rather than merely threaten individual self-actualisation #expands (0.72) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 371
• Mathematical facts are true independently of human thought #exemplifies (0.70) — G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology, 264
• Unified physics theories may require multiple formulations. #exemplifies (0.70) — Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of Time, 11
• Alternative maps of interpretation yield fresh perspective on familiar material #exemplifies (0.60) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 319
• Reality is produced through collective work and action #contradicts (0.60) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 386
• Blackstone’s view that certain abstract terms definitionally incorporate a wide range of specific results is tied intimately to his perception of a hard and suprahuman reality behind these general… #exemplifies (0.55)