What is History?Macmillan, 1961 - 154 Seiten |
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... prediction , if you care to call it such , is based on a generalization from past experience , ` and is a valid and useful guide to action . But you cannot make the specific prediction that Charles or Mary will catch measles . The ...
... prediction , if you care to call it such , is based on a generalization from past experience , ` and is a valid and useful guide to action . But you cannot make the specific prediction that Charles or Mary will catch measles . The ...
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... prediction , however correctly based on the analysis , proves self - frustrating . One reason why history rarely ... prediction to the occurrence of the phenomenon predicted . The political scientist who , on the strength of historical ...
... prediction , however correctly based on the analysis , proves self - frustrating . One reason why history rarely ... prediction to the occurrence of the phenomenon predicted . The political scientist who , on the strength of historical ...
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... predictions of world catastrophe are in the air , and weigh heavily on all . They can be neither proved nor disproved ... prediction does not prevent us from laying plans for our own future , so I shall proceed to discuss the present and ...
... predictions of world catastrophe are in the air , and weigh heavily on all . They can be neither proved nor disproved ... prediction does not prevent us from laying plans for our own future , so I shall proceed to discuss the present and ...
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LECTURE PAGE I THE HISTORIAN AND HIS FACTS I | 1 |
SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL | 25 |
HISTORY SCIENCE AND MORALITY | 50 |
Urheberrecht | |
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1817 LIBRARIES A. J. P. Taylor A. L. Rowse abstract action Acton advance belief Bertrand Russell British historians called Cambridge Modern History causes character CHIGAN civilization Collingwood conception consciously criterion economic eighteenth empirical English enquiry environment essay F. H. Bradley facts of history French revolution Freud future German Gibbon happened Hegel historical facts human behaviour hypothesis individual J. B. Bury laissez-faire laws lecture liberal liberty Marx meaning mediaeval Meinecke MICHIGAN moral judgments Namier Napoleon nature nineteenth century objective objective laws observed past perhaps period philosophers philosophy of history political prediction present problem Professor Butterfield Professor Popper progress question quoted rational reason role Russian revolution scientist sense significant Sir Isaiah Berlin social sciences society Sociology speak Stresemann theory things thought tion truth unconscious understanding UNIVER UNIVERSITY valid values view of history Whig Interpretation words write wrote