The natural sciences, especially physics and chemistry, offer explanations by law. Laws are general propositions that allow us to infer the truth of one statement at one time from the truth of another statement at some earlier time. This kind of explanation is deterministic: given the antecedents, only one consequent (or antecedent) is possible. The social sciences offer few if any law-like explanations of this kind. The relation between explanans and explanandum is not one-one or many-one, but one-many or many-many. Many social scientists try to model this relation by using statistical methods. Statistical explanations are incomplete by themselves, however, since they ultimately have to rely on intuitions about plausible causal mechnisms. (查看原文)
0 有用 娅娃儿咯咯咯 2024-04-02 16:14:51 浙江
选读1-3，21。
0 有用 Incandescence 2024-02-13 23:43:17 江苏
机制那一部分讲得非常到位。
1 有用 入戏的小丑 2021-06-09 23:24:41
我天，这翻译对不起这个书价，还是看原文
1 有用 本杰明 2020-07-26 12:05:51
英文已出了第二版。本店有售。
0 有用 水月孤桥 2024-03-25 09:41:11 江苏
书是好书，翻译的一般