Question: Explain why the fact AND the method are essentially
different in the physical sciences and the human sciences. How do you
explain the human sciences as true sciences?

The answer is contained in Phenomenology and the Human Science by
Stephan Strasser. I believe that the pages are 106 to 137, but I am
not certain.

At a high-level, the fact in natural science versus the fact in human
science the text states (pages 126-127) "In the preceeding section we
have seen, following Husserl, what the fundamental methodic idea of
natural science is since the time of Galileo. Its purpose is to fix an
experience in a network of mathematical, logical and logistical ideas.
More philospohically expressed, experiences have to be translated as
much as possible into the language of formal idealization. This "as
much as possible" applies also to the human science, but here there is
only a limited possibility, because in the realm of human science
content-ideas play a decisive role alongside formal ideas. Three
analyses may serve to clarify and illustrate this assertion."...

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Request for Question Clarification by omniscientbeing-ga on 23 Oct 2003 19:49 PDT

How do you define "human science?" As with sociology and anthropology, or what?

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Clarification of Question by lgl1-ga on 23 Oct 2003 19:55 PDT

The general subject of study is psychology, so I would have to say
that it refers to the study of psychology. Although, based upon what I
have been reading, they refer to human phenomena as mental, historical
and social.