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8054 | Social sciences discover no law-like generalisations, and tend to ignore counterexamples [MacIntyre] |
Full Idea: Social sciences have discovered no law-like generalisations whatsoever, ...and for the most part they adopt a very tolerant attitude to counter-examples. | |
From: Alasdair MacIntyre (After Virtue: a Study in Moral Theory [1981], Ch. 8) | |
A reaction: I suspect that this is as much to do with a narrow and rigid view of what 'science' is supposed to be, as a failure of the social sciences. Have such sciences explained anything? I suspect that they have explained a lot, often after the facts. |