1. All sciences refer to way in which humans form concepts and theories.

Physical and psychical sciences

undivided, we belong to nature and nature is at work in us. Abstractions of distinction only valid within
limits of the point of view within which they are projected. Both concepts can be used only if we remain
conscious that they are merely abstracted from the factually given human being they designate no full
realities but only legitimately formed abstractions. Study of history and present state of society
dependent on each other and form stable nexus. (All sciences have common reference to human beings)
2. We must inquire into the kind of relation the human sciences have to humanity. Linguistics = speech
organs + meaning of words, war = gunpowder and morals. What moves us in history is found in lived
experience implicit in the outer processes that arise from it and which in turn react back to it, history
revolves around experiencable aspect of life in which life has its value, purpose, and meaning. Physical
world discovered insofar as the lived character of our impressions of nature, the connection we have
and extent that we are a part of it. Humans create great object of nature as an order governed by laws
that becomes center of reality on the basis of their impressions.
History shows how sciences that refer to human life engaged in approximation of human self-reflection.
Tendency to understand concepts grounded in psychic nexus intelligible. Outer/inner concepts
designate relation between outer sensory appearance of life and that which produced it and expresses
itself in it relation exists only as far as understanding reaches. (This relation always a reference back
from an outer sensory aspect to one that is withdrawn from the senses and therefore inner)
3. To overcome resort to psychology to determine inner aspect further, example that law is an
imperative behind which power of community enforces it, thus historical understanding of law in a
community is a regress from outer apparatus to system of legal imperatives that has its outer existence
in the apparatus and produced by common will. Literary history and poetics concerned with sensory of
nexus of word to whats expressed by them, thus poet not expressing inner processes but a nexus
separable from and created in them (wtf?).
Human sciences have object not in impressions of lived experiences but in objects created by conceptual
cognition, created on basis of law imposed by the facts themselves. In physical sciences conceptual
object emerges from understanding, in human sciences a physical object from cognition.
4. Discipline in human science if its object accessible through attitude founded upon by nexus of life,
expression, and understanding. --5 (139).