Causality
and Modern Science
" . . . [O]ur comparative ignorance
of the laws of society and history is due not only to
the great complexity of human affairs, but also to the very prejudice
that there are no laws of history -- a prejudice
suspect of being allied to powerful social (or antisocial)
interests that are vitally interested in preventing deep
insights into the social mechanism. Et pour cause! People
who are able to take the social mechanism apart in theory may
wish to change it in practice, and -- what is more dangerous
for those who live on the persistence of fossil social forms -- such
men may even succeed in their attempt."1a*
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1 Mario Bunge (b. 1919).
Causality
and Modern Science. 3rd
revised ed. Mario Bunge, 1962,
1963, 1979. Harvard University Press, 1959. New York, NY: Dover
Publications, Inc.
a Causality and Scientific Law, at 273.
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