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Historian and Scientist: An Essay on the Nature of History and the Social Sciences

✍ Scribed by Gaetano Salvemini

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1939
Tongue
English
Leaves
216
Edition
Reprint 2014
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

PREFACE
CONTENTS
I. A DEFINITION OF TERMS
II. INTELLECTUAL HYBRIDS
III. AN ISSUE WHICH CANNOT BE EVADED
IV. THE SOURCES OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE
V. HISTORICAL SKEPTICISM
VI. SELECTION AND IMAGINATION
VII. BIAS AND HYPOTHESIS
VIII. UNIQUE AND RECURRING FACTS
IX. COMPLEXITY, MEASUREMENT, AND EXPERIMENT
X. PREVISION
XI. EXACT AND INEXACT SCIENCES
XII. FROM HUMILITY TO TOLERANCE
APPENDIX
INDEX

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