Ein System als Teil einer Theorie. : Überlegungen zum Abgrenzungskriterium einer reflexionslogischen Wissenschaftstheorie der Musikpädagogik. : A system as part of a theory: Reflections on the problem of demarcation as a problem of scientific music pedagogy.

According to Hilary Putnam's pragmatist realism, science should both cling to reference and fallibilism, and take into account that objects are related to values. This correlation is theorized by a system of scientific music pedagogy based on a logic of reflection. Empirical research should always entail the revision of assumptions concerning facts if necessary and potentially relativize axiological reflections. Thus, a specific mode of asymmetry between the system and empirical evidence is ensured, which can be applied as a criterion of demarcation (Popper, 1935/112005). While Norman K. Denzin's "performance ethnography/autoethnography" (2014) is inconsistent with this criterion due to the lack of a concept of an object, Sandra Harding's "feminist standpoint empiricism" with its notion of "strong objectivity" (2004) can be reconstructed as consistent. (DIPF/Orig.).