Popper’s situational logic translates subjective factors into objective ones, an unexplained translation.

Evidence

Understanding implied finding the situational logic of a given action that would enable the scientist to say, `If I had had the same goals, theory and information, I would have acted in exactly the same way.’ … It was thus not a question of investigating the way in which subjective desires and objective restrictions, subjective ideas and objective conditions, were interrelated in social actions, but rather a process of translating subjective factors into factors that were accessible in the same way as the occurrences investigated by the natural sciences. How such a process of translation was possible within the framework of Popper’s critical philosophy of science remained obscure, however. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 597

Categorization

• QUESTION: Wiggersmith flags the unresolved problem: how translation of subjective into objective factors is possible under Popper’s own critical philosophy remains obscure. Worth chasing into the Popper-Adorno literature.
• DEEPTHINKING: The tension between interpretive understanding and objective reconstructions is a foundational fault line in the philosophy of social science that resists a quick summary.
• XREF: connects to: Popper modeled social science on economics and its method of situational logic. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 597; Being past turns subjective states into thing-like objective facts; Popper located objectivity in science’s institutions, not individual minds — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 87 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Popper modeled social science on economics and its method of situational logic. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 597; Being past turns subjective states into thing-like objective facts; Popper located objectivity in science’s institutions, not individual minds — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 87 (+1 more)