[MD] Social Imposition ?

[David M]

Hi Case

Thing is with society is the key thing not what
sortof society we want to make, so it is about the
possible rather than the necessary or even probable.

David M


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> David M
> Are there social and psychological laws
> for these higher sciences to discover?
>
> I wonder if we should call this social inquiry
> rather than social science as Nick Maxwell suggests.
>
> [Case]
> I think all laws in science are to be seen in increasingly probabilistic
> ways. What one looks for in any field of science is patterns and rules. 
> But
> the farther one strays from mathematics the more we talk about 
> likelihoods.
> For example whether one regards reinforcement as a law or not, it is
> extraordinarily effective at changing patterns of behavior.
>
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