Formal Thought and the Sciences of Man

system reflected in Saussure''s linguistic theory, and so influential in the great progress linguistic theory has made in this century. Indeed, Granger sees linguistic theory as expressing a paradigm for scientific theorizing, which research in other social sciences should adopt. But ''structuralism'' as a method in science does not, in Granger''s view, begin with Saussure and the linguists. It is...