The True Statistical Basis of Science as Fact in the Social Order: A Study in Social Psychology (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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As we undertake a systematic and detailed inventory of the results of science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and compare them with those of the whole period gone before, we find ourselves forcibly struck by the astonishing progress made by science within the short period, this mention of astonish ment being the burden of frequent comment upon the matter. Yet little do we suspect that this frequently recognized occur rence of astonishment when contemplating the matter has in it an important element, or is an important factor in the further development, of the truth, for which mind shows itself to be unconsciously groping at the time. For, the course taken by science within the last fifty years, it may be summarily stated, cannot lead us to the supposed goal, because its methods have most peculiarly disregarded and still continued to disregard an important epistemological factor in the development of truth. This factor mind, in its astonishment at the results of science, unconsciously contemplates in a silent undercurrent of thought, namely, What after all can the wonderful results as such have to do with ourselves as it seems that we could walk away from them and leave them all indifferently behind? The efiorts now making in the development and extension of science by these methods can thus at best appear to us only as a mere running to seed, an extensive development of detail in experience which lacks all enduring substance.

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