The book analyzes the key problems of the methodology of the social sciences. It examines the problem of comparability and the incomparability of the natural and the socal sciences.
The essence of he problem is a dispute, whether in the social sciences and in he natural sciences can in principle use the same methods and the same procedures. The author develops a concept of the historical time and elaborates the problem of the narration.
The sarting points is the idea of the "possible world" and the retrograde analysis.