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Social scientists may withhold judgments, but only at the cost of impoverishing their interpretation and putting out of play their pretheoretical, practical knowledge that they have in common with others who are able to reach understanding.

Jürgen Habermas Bohman, James 2007

Although social scientists are not actors, they must employ their own pretheoretical knowledge to gain interpretive access through communicative experience.

Jürgen Habermas Bohman, James 2007

As a member of the second generation of Critical Theory, Habermas in particular has developed this dimension of normative political theory into a competitor to Rawlsian constructivism, which attempts to bring our pretheoretical intuitions into reflective equilibrium.

Critical Theory Bohman, James 2005

Habermas's calls for particular “reconstructive sciences,” whose aim it is to render theoretically explicit the intuitive, pretheoretical know-how underlying such basic human competences as speaking and understanding, judging, and acting.

Critical Theory Bohman, James 2005

Rather, it is better to start with agents 'own pretheoretical knowledge and self-understandings.

Critical Theory Bohman, James 2005

This is pretheoretical in your model, since you start from 'worlds', but the RL moral/legal distinctions between property rights over objects and rights in private places are sufficiently distinct to demand clarification of a construct.

The Four Worlds Theory 2005

The part of moral theory, as opposed to pretheoretical intuitions, is to explain our judgments of good and evil by revealing the connections between them.

On Morality & Pessimism Brumm, Gordon 1973

His pretheoretical notion is that "intelligence" roughly means how well and how quickly someone learns-that is, intelligent people learn better and faster.

American Scientist Online 2009

The anti-utilitarian replies: nothing is certain in the theory of morality, but, at a pretheoretical level, some human virtues fit together as virtues to form a way of life aspired to, and some monstrous and brutal acts are certainly vicious in the sense that they undermine and corrupt this way of life; and we can explain why they are, and what makes them so, provided that we do not insist upon either precision or certainty or simplicity in the explanation.

A Special Supplement: Morality & Pessimism Hampshire, Stuart 1973

One may invoke a theory ” a theory of temporal parts, for example ” that construes the relation as a certain kind of similarity, but that is theory, not pretheoretical intuition.

Relative Identity Deutsch, Harry 2007