Research process categories tie methodological rules to specific epistemological interests

Evidence

It was possible, Habermas contended, to show that three categories of research process involved a specific relation between logical and methodological rules, on the one hand, and epistemological interests on the other. In the empirical-analytical sciences, the logical structure of the permitted systems of proof, and the type of test conditions applied, suggest that reality is grasped on the basis of a guiding interest in achieving technical control over objectified processes. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2441

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Habermas’s three-category framework (empirical-analytical, etc.) linking logic and method to knowledge-constitutive interests — vocabulary core to critical theory.
• XREF: connects to: Each scientific research category serves a distinct guiding knowledge interest. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2442