This article concerns the relation between Durkheim's “rules” for sociological method and Charles Renouvier's Logique. It identifies each chapter of Durkheim's book as relying in a specific way on features of Renouvier's logical and scientific system. Certain of the puzzles of Durkheim's thought can be elucidated, if not fully explicated, by an analysis of Renouvier's Logique.
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