SOSC 1000 Chapter Notes -Collective Behavior, Scientific Method, Socalled
19 Nov 2012
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Myth and history are class kin inasmuch as both explain how things to be the way they are by telling some sort of story. Accordingly, a historian who rejects someone else"s conclusions call them mythical, while claiming that his own views are true. But what seems try to one historian will see false to another, so one historian"s truth becomes another"s myth. Scientific source criticism would get the facts straight, where upon a conscientious and careful historian needed only to arrange the facts into a readable narrative to produce genuinely scientific history. Reacting against an almost mechanical vision of scientific method it is easy to underestimate actual achievements. Ideal scientific history was far more constricting than devotees believed. Natural scientists are ruthless in selecting aspects of available sensory inputs to pay attention to, disregarding all else. They call their patterns theories, and inherit most of them from predecessors.
