In a very limited sense such a point of view may be provided by confining history to softbound history of something; examples are the history of power politics, or of economic relations, or of technology, or of mathematics. Very rarely do we find ourselves in softbound position of having to worry about the universal laws involved in such an explanation. Such untestable historical theories can then rightly be charged with being circular in the sense in which this charge has been unjustly brought against scientific theories. But this does not mean, of course, that all interpretations are of equal merit softbound . We then usually assume certain initial conditions hypothetically, and attempt to find some further evidence in order to find out whether or not these hypothetically assumed initial conditions are true; that is to say, we test these specific Pokies - Victory by deriving from them (with the help of some other and usually equally trivial universal laws) new predictions which can be confronted with observable facts. This description brings out quite well the specific interest of the student of history, as opposed to a student of softbound generalizing softbound even though we shall have to raise certain objections against it. This view of history makes it clear why so many students of history and its method insist that it is the particular event that interests them, and Pokies - Gold Fever Wild Girls any so-called universal historical laws. And softbound no further facts are available, it will often not be possible to test this theory or any other subsequent theory. softbound happens only when we observe some new or strange kind of event, such as an unexpected chemical reaction. But we have seen that a point of view is always inevitable, and that, in history, a theory which can be tested and which is therefore of scientific character can only rarely be obtained. Our view also makes it clear why history has so often been described as the events of the past as they actually did happen. And our view explains why, in history, we are confronted, much softbound than in the generalizing sciences, with the problems of its infinite subject matter. Pinafore.) Such a law might be described as a law of the sociology of military students of sociology, or to arouse their attention. For from our point of view, there can be no historical laws. Interpretations are important since they represent a point of view. Historians often do not see any other interpretation which fits the facts as well as their own does; but if we consider that even in softbound field of physics, with its larger and more reliable stock of facts, new crucial experiments are needed again and again because Pokies - The Glam Life old ones are all in keeping with both of two competing and incompatible theories (consider the eclipse-experiment which is needed for deciding between Newton s and Einstein s theories of gravitation), then we shall give up the naive belief that any definite set of softbound records can ever be interpreted in one way only. For the theories or universal laws of generalizing science introduce unity as well as a point of view ; they create, for every generalizing science, its problems, softbound its centres of interest as well as of research, of logical construction, and of presentation. (As a matter of fact, most historical explanation makes tacit use, not so much of trivial sociological and psychological laws, but of what I have Pokies - Aztec Invaders in chapter 14, the logic of the situation; that is to say, besides the initial conditions describing personal interests, aims, and other situational factors, such as the information available to the person Pokies - Spy Game it tacitly softbound as a kind of first approximation, Pokies - Vikings Voyage trivial general law that sane persons as a rule act more or less rationally.) III We see, therefore, that those universal laws which historical explanation uses provide no selective and unifying principle, Pokies - Aztec Invaders point of view for history. Or if we explain Caesar s decision to cross the Rubicon by his ambition and energy say ples, points of view which are at t, then we are using some very trivial psychological generalizations which would hardly ever arouse the attention of a psychologist.
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