Predictability in Human Affairs

Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures 1:1-19 (1968)
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I Want to talk about a strong sense of the terms ‘predict’, ‘prediction’, ‘predictability’, and so on; to take up the question whether a social science may aspire to predict in the strong sense; and to consider some bearings of this question on the free-will problem.

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