What is History?: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961Macmillan, 1986 - 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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Introductory Note | ix |
Notes towards a Second | xvii |
xi | xlvi |
Urheberrecht | |
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