Re: LIMITS TO BRAINS

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Wiliam Kirk wrote:

>             Having a few basics in science it is like knowing the laws and
> if you work within the law then you can discover, invent, describe
> processes, predict, and so on. What I'd like to know is the few basics that
> cover this curious world of 'social science', where basic ideas have been
> stated and can extended. For about twenty years I've been trying to find
> some 'science' in economics but so far nothing has come up.

To get at the basic differences between science, social science and the
humanitiesas historically constituted, try C.P. Snow's _Two Cultures_,
followed by Lepenies' _Between Literature and Science:  tHe Rise of
Sociology_.

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Boris Stremlin
bc70219@binghamton.edu