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Predictability in Human Affairs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2010

G. P. Henderson
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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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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 1 , March 1968 , pp. 1 - 19
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1968

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page 2 note 1 An estimate in this respect is like a certain well-known kind of forecast, namely weather-forecasts.

page 5 note 1 Logic, Bk. vi, ch. v.