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The Mexican Revolution: Theory or Fact?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

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Social scientists make a fundamental assumption about the nature of the relationship between theory and fact. For them, theories are seen, not as guides to individual behaviour, but as tools for the clinical investigation of social processes. The end of this search is a better theory. A theory has most chance of acceptance if it seems elegantly to order a very large number of hitherto unrelated facts.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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