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Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 09:56:47 2021 No.12749107 View Reply Original Report

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Are there any scientific approaches to explaining history?

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Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2021 10:31:33 No.12749168 Report

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I still can't comprehend why people who believe in this historically revisioned liberal brain fart exist. My sincere stance as a scientist and as a good human being is that no such approaches can exist.

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Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2021 10:41:25 No.12749193 Report

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>>12749107
It would be the end goal of psychology, once you understand all humans, you can understand how they interact throughout time, which is what forms history.

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Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2021 18:21:28 No.12750367 Report

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>>12749107
Historical Materialism

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Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2021 18:25:51 No.12750378 Report

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>>12749193
Not necessarily, civilization could be an emergent property divorced from and unexplained by human psychology (to a certain extent)

>>12750367
He said scientific, not pseudo-scientific.

>>12749107
Cliodynamics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliodynamics

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Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2021 18:28:12 No.12750383 Report

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>>12749193
Yes, I read Asimov too

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Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2021 18:51:23 No.12750451 Report

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>>12749107
Do you mean scientific historiography (writing of history) or understanding human societies?
Because we have scientific historiography, it started with leopold von ranke. It's the basis of modern, critical source based historiography.

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Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2021 19:17:04 No.12750557 Report

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There is an attempt called cliodynamics. As far as I can tell it's like most young sciences: it wants to jump straight to deductive reasoning in the form of mathematics without doing any of the inductive reasoning needed to get to that point. It's a lot like economics in that respect.

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