OBJECTIVITY, SOCIAL SCIENCES, AND THE CHARGE OF INFERIORITY

This paper challenges the charge of inferiority, on the basis of objectivity, against the social sciences.The idea of objectivity is that facts about the state of the world and entities in it are observed or studied without a taint of personal bias, value judgement or particular perspective.The social sciences are accused of falling short of the re

Through core observation, thin section identification, and logging and testing data analysis, the types and characteristics of event deposits in the ninth member of Yanchang Formation of Triassic (Chang 9 Member) in southwestern Ordos Basin, China, are examined.There are 4 types and 9 subtypes of event deposits, i.e.earthquake, gravity flow, volcan