Tag: Auguste Comte
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Critique to sociology and related disciplines by Bastos
But the idea is that there is a kind of determinism, that there is a series of statistical data from the past that can be used to predict the future, and from those statistics, from that data, a deterministic vision is born. So, for example, everything that is forecasting, futures analysis, and things like that…
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The limits of quantitative research in social sciences
“If there is no net force on an object, then its velocity is constant. The object is either at rest (if its velocity is equal to zero), or it moves with constant speed in a single direction“. First Newton law The mastering of the so called “law-like generalizations” (Saunders et at, 2009) produced within natural science…