Words and Distinctions for the Common Good - Gabriel Abend

\In this book, Gabriel Abend argues that social scientists need to focus more on the words and distinctions that their empirical claims depend on. He suggests two central questions researchers need to consider. First, how should word \w\ be used in the social science community? Which is to say, how should word \w\ be defined, should it be used at all, and if so, on what grounds? Second, should distinction \d\ be accepted in the social science community? For example, when a social scientist..