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The german sociologist max weber 1864 1920 is the originator of the demand for freedom from value judgments in the social sciences, an ideal he referred to as werturteilsfreiheit valuefreedom. The statement that the halting problem cannot be solved by a turing machine is one of the most important results in computability theory, as it is an example of a concrete problem that is both easy to formulate and impossible to solve using a turing machine. However, it is best studied with mathematical tools and thus best based on the most mathematical of the universal models of computation, the partial recursivefunctions. Computability theory deals primarily with the question of the extent to which a problem is solvable on a computer. Used to describe webers approach to sociological explanation, which emphasizes the need to develop an empathic understanding of the subjective meanings and motives of social action.
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