From: Ariane Sacco <sacco-AT-student.uni-kassel.de>
Subject: Re: chaos theory and social science
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 12:00:25 +0100 (MEZ)


Hello,

The two mails on chaos theory read to me like one more version of an
argument between the "two cultures". 
But perhaps it is more than a question of bad application of
scientific findings in the social sciences. Too often in social
questions scientific findings have been used to bolster a certain
social or moral theory. And often the scientific findings weren
not real science but social or moral statements. One  example would be
social darwinism.
Does the natural fally apply to moving hypotheses from natural science
to social science? How does the change of context affect the hypotheses.

Ariane


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