 The distinction between different empirical sciences is then also to be sought at this level. In particular, Windelband argues that science might pursue one of two different “knowledge goals” (1894: 143): it “either seeks the general in the form of natural law or the particular in the historically determined form” (1894: 145). The former approach is that of the “nomothetic sciences” which seek to arrive at universal apodictic judgments, treating the particular and unique as a mere exemplar or special case of the type or of the generic concept. The “idiographic sciences”, in contrast, aim to arrive at singular assertoric judgments that represent a unique object in its individual formation (1894: 150).