Can historians predict the future of their discipline? An answer
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No 15 (2006), Reflexiones bibliográficas
Submitted: 30-11-2012
Accepted: 30-11-2012
Abstract
This article supports that it is only possible to make a prediction if there is a science for defining some kind of events and dealing with them mathematically, through laws. Some sciences can predict events, but none of them can predict its own development, because there is not a science of the science.
Regarding the History, it is impossible to predict the events due to the inexistence of mathematical laws, but the historians may design the future of their discipline according to the set of the moral values assumed by them, since in the History occurs a strong link between
knowledge and value.
Regarding the History, it is impossible to predict the events due to the inexistence of mathematical laws, but the historians may design the future of their discipline according to the set of the moral values assumed by them, since in the History occurs a strong link between
knowledge and value.
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Science, prediction, law, History, historians.
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