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Explanation by description : An essay on historical methodology / Fred D. Newman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newman, Fred D., author.
- Series:
- Studies in Philosophy ; 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Methodology.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (104 pages).
- Edition:
- Reprint 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- I. Introductory Remarks: In the beginning there were the covering-law theorists
- II. The Historical Explanation Sketch
- III. From Caterpillar to Butterfly: A Case History of the How-Possibly
- IV. How Possiblies, How Actualies and How Historians Explain
- V. Historians, Freedom and the Logic of Prediction
- VI. Concluding Remarks: Historian, qua Super Scientist
- Epilogue
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9783111396002
- 3111396002
- OCLC:
- 1091661287
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