caa a22 4500 475842987 CHVBK 20180406123905.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1007282220811 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1007282220811 Schmidt Siegfried Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft der Westf., Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Bispinghof 9-14, D-48143, Münster, Germany aut No Beyond of Discourse on a Constructivist Reading of 'Empirical' [Elektronische Daten] [Siegfried Schmidt] In this paper, a non-positivistic concept of 'empiricity' is proposed which relates 'empirical' to collective knowledge and to methodologically ordered problem-solving procedures and not to objects or to reality beyond our discourses. Empirical knowledge is deemed objective if and as long as it does not contradict relevant parts of hitherto valid scientific knowledge and scientific procedures. Empirical facts (Lat. facta) are intentionally and systematically constructed and not found. The touch-stone for the objectivity of facts is reproducibility under ceteris paribus conditions. Empirical knowledge results from a theoretically controlled procedure of knowledge production which serves the purpose of a cultural homogenisation of scientific communities if and as long as the presuppositions of this production are accepted and the results deemed viable (sensu E. von Glasersfeld) and applicable inside or outside the disciplinary discourse. Akadémiai Kiadó, 2000 Neohelicon Kluwer Academic Publishers 27/2(2000-12-01), 7-12 0324-4652 27:2<7 2000 27 11059 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007282220811 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007282220811 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Schmidt Siegfried Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft der Westf., Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Bispinghof 9-14, D-48143, Münster, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neohelicon Kluwer Academic Publishers 27/2(2000-12-01), 7-12 0324-4652 27:2<7 2000 27 11059 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer