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    An Essay on Causality in the Empirical and Social Sciences
    An Essay on Causality in the Empirical and Social Sciences
    An Essay on Causality in the Empirical and Social Sciences
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    An Essay on Causality in the Empirical and Social Sciences

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    This essay is Appendix A of How To Define the Word "Religion". I broke it out as a separate piece for classes in both religion and the social sciences to consider. The category-based nested form is the ground for this entertaining consideration of the way the empirical and social sciences operate and how we (humans) respond to their operations.

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    PublisherRazie Mah
    Release dateDec 10, 2014
    ISBN9780988347656
    An Essay on Causality in the Empirical and Social Sciences
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      An Essay on Causality in the Empirical and Social Sciences - Razie Mah

      Appendix A of How to Define the Word Religion

      published by Razie Mah for Smashwords

      7814 U0’

      Table of Contents

      Foreward

      Introduction

      Method

      Applied to the Empirical Sciences

      First Rumination

      Implications

      Applied to the Social Sciences

      Second Rumination

      Implications

      Conclusion

      Forward!

      Eric Voegelin, in his 1952 classic, The New Science of Politics, noted that two modes of analysis fell out of favor in the current age. These were Greek Philosophy and Christian Scholasticism. Of course, Scholasticism applied Greek Philosophy to the Jewish Scriptures, so the two modes have a much in common.

      Today, Greek Philosophy has broken out of its box with the publication of a series of books by Nassim Taleb. His most recent is Anti-Fragile. Highly recommended.

      Scholasticism faces a more difficult rebirth, primarily because something odd happened to the schoolmen. Jewish Scriptures changed Greek Philosophy. The Old and New Testaments presented quandaries that Greek Philosophy could not handle, such as:

      What is a sign?

      John Deely, in his 2001 masterwork, Four Ages of Understanding: The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times

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