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Such a narrative may treat the social sciences as if they had empirical certainty , or were ideologically dependent upon harder science and technology . Alternatively , areas of human life less accessible to scientific analysis may be ...
Such a narrative may treat the social sciences as if they had empirical certainty , or were ideologically dependent upon harder science and technology . Alternatively , areas of human life less accessible to scientific analysis may be ...
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This strange synchrony of social progress and SF pessimism has been discussed elsewhere in the pages of SFS : when speaking of American SF written during the 1960s , for example , Gérard Klein has noted : “ ... being an economist , I am ...
This strange synchrony of social progress and SF pessimism has been discussed elsewhere in the pages of SFS : when speaking of American SF written during the 1960s , for example , Gérard Klein has noted : “ ... being an economist , I am ...
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for widespread social repression if such scientific knowledge is abused . But , somewhat paradoxically , this novel also expresses a great faith in the dynamism of scientific progress and its capacity to improve society - a faith which ...
for widespread social repression if such scientific knowledge is abused . But , somewhat paradoxically , this novel also expresses a great faith in the dynamism of scientific progress and its capacity to improve society - a faith which ...
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