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In the contemporary methodology of the empirical sciences C. G. Hempel’s model of explanation is being almost universally accepted as an adequate reconstruction of the procedure of explanation in the empirical sciences.
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Cf. C. G. Hempel, Philosophy of Natural Science, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1966, p. 51.
Ibid., p. 54.
Ibid.
After a Polish translation of a Russian handbook of physics by S. Frish and A. Timoreva.
L. Nowak, U metodologicznych podstaw ‘Kapitalu’ Karola Marksa (The Foundations of Karl Marx’s Methodology in ‘Capital’), Warsaw, 1971, Chapter II.
A more detailed explanation is to be found in L. Nowak, Ibid.
The author is indebted to J. Kmita for the suggestion that this condition should be included.
The term ‘domain’ is used here as in the theory of models; hence reference is made to a system “U; R1,..., Rk”, where U stands for any set, and R1,..., Rk are designated relations defined on U.
See L. Nowak, op. cit., Chapter IV.
C. G. Hempel, ‘Problems of Concept and Theory Formation in Social Science’. In Science, Language and Human Rights, Philadelphia, 1952, p. 80.
Ibid., p.81.
This argument has been suggested by J. Kmita.
C. G. Hempel, ‘Problems of Concept…’,(see note 10 ) p. 81.
K. Marx, ‘Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy’. In K. Marx and F. Engels, Selected Works, Vol. I, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1950, p. 330.
See L. Nowak, op. cit.
K. Marx, Capital, Moscow. Based on the English language version of 1887, with corrections added in 1890, edited by F. Engels, Vol. I, Section IV, § 1.
K. Marx. Capital, op. cit., Vol. III. p. 192.
Ibid., pp. 192–193.
The rate of surplus value is the quotient of surplus value (the surplus of the value produced by worker as compared with the value of his manpower) by variable capital (wages). Ibid., p. 131.
K. Marx, ‘Letter to F. Engels of April 2, 1858’ In K. Marx and F. Engels, Briefe über ‘Das Kapital’, Berlin, 1954, p. 88.
Reference is made to the quotient of constant capital (outlays on the means of labour) by variable capital.
K. Marx, Capital, op, cit., Vol. Ill, p. 741.
Ibid., p. 265.
Ibid., p. 60.
Ibid., p. 186.
Ibid., p. 38.
L. Nowak, op. cit., Chapter II.
K. Marx, Capital, Vol. Ill, p. 175.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Cf. Z. Czerwiński, Wstep do ekonometrii (Introduction to Econometrics), Poznań, 1967, p. 143.
K. Marx, Capital, op, cit., Vol. Ill, p. 177.
Ibid., p. 178.
Ibid., p. 176.
Ibid., pp. 140–141.
Ibid., p. 26.
Ibid., p. 163.
Ibid., p. 265.
Ibid., p. 281.
This symbol stands here for average profit, proportional to the amount of capital, and hence corresponds to the earlier symbol kp’, where p’ stands for the general (average) rate of profit.
K. Marx, Capital, op. cit., Vol. III, pp. 280–281.
Ibid., pp. 741–742.
Ibid., p. 746.
L. Nowak, op. cit., Chapter VIII.
It is an oversimplified definition, but its enlargements are not to be discussed here.
L. Nowak, op. cit., Chapter X.
K. Marx, Capital, op. cit., Vol III, p. 846.
K. Marx, ‘Letter to Kugelmann of July 11, 1868’. In K. Marx and F. Engels, Briefe über ‘Das Kapital’, op. cit., p. 185.
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Nowak, L. (1979). The Problem of Explanation in Karl Marx’s Capital . In: Wiatr, J.J. (eds) Polish Essays in the Methodology of the Social Sciences. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9353-2_4
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