Scientific observation’s empirical warrant comes from socially integrated convictions, not individual perception.

Evidence

The so-called basis-problem simply does not appear if we regard the research process as part of a comprehensive process of socially institutionalized actions, through which social groups sustain their naturally precarious life. For the basic statement no longer draws empirical validity solely from the motives of an individual observation, but also from the previous integration of individual perceptions into the realm of convictions which are unproblematic, and have proved themselves on a broad basis. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 600

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the ‘basis-problem’ of logical empiricism and supplies Habermas’s dissolution of it.
• DEEPTHINKING: Dissolves a foundational problem in philosophy of science by relocating it inside socially institutionalized labour — a claim that reorganizes the whole positivism dispute.