The concept of data is correlative with the concept of theory, and the plain suggestion here is that substantive philosophy of history is an attempt to discover a kind of theory concerned with the , as yet unclarified, notion of the while of history, I shall follow this suggestion, and identify two distinct kinds of such theories descriptive and explanatory. (查看原文)
a descriptive theory in this context is one which seeks to show a pattern amongst the events which make up the whole past, and to project this pattern into the future, and so to make the claim the events in the future will either repeat or complete the pattern exhibited amongst events in the past, an explanatory theory is an attempt to account for this pattern in causal terms (查看原文)
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5 有用 zero 2008-04-20 18:41:24
我要重新啃它......我服了,啃不动
0 有用 非我 2022-01-16 12:15:42
按需
0 有用 一固撇捺 2023-12-27 12:14:23 天津
史学讲述故事，叙述就是解释！
0 有用 摸只松鼠 2022-07-31 20:28:55
有点吃力
0 有用 Chance 2014-08-18 16:26:42
只读了100页，后面不是一般的晦涩，分析哲学功力不够，读得太吃力。