1. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, October 1982. I wish to thank Mark Okrent and Ned Block for their helpful comments on that occasion.
2. The Review of Metaphysics. Sept. 1980, pp. 3–55.
3. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, Vintage, 1973, p. 348.
4. Charles Taylor, “Interpretation and the Sciences of Man” in Interpretive Social Sciences, ed. Paul Rabinow and William M. Sullivan, University of California Press, 1979.
5. Mark Okrent, “Hermeneutics, Transcendental Philosophy, and Social Science,” Inquiry, 1984 (forthcoming).