Trinal Methodological Approach toward Social Sciences and its Comparison with Allameh Tabataba i's Theory of Contingents

Occasionally, one can search for topics of modern philosophy in the works of Iran’s prominent philosophers. In a lenient segmentation, the humankind’s most important epistemological transformation can be divided into positivism, ultra-positivism and constructivism. Allameh Tabataba’i’s philosophy, though fundamentally different with these three approaches, possesses some of their contents. One of the innovations in Allameh’s philosophy is ‘the theory of Contingents’ which seem to have similarities with ultra-positivists and constructivist approaches, the investigation of which is the aim of this article. The gist of the present article is that although Allameh Tabataba’i considers a contingent nature for some social phenomena, he does not regard the perception of these phenomena as relative and believes in the possibility of unbiased perception, such as visual or contingent perception, of these social occurrences. In this way, Allameh Tabataba’i’s mindset differs from those of the postmodern era.