
The Origins of Cultural History: 2 – Geisteswissenschaft and the Natural Sciences: Vico versus Descartes
Isaiah Berlin
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Logic and the Law of Attraction
In the case of objective universe, only its creator can know. He lays down what in effect is a very basic difference between laws and rules. Laws are general propositions which attempt to record or describe the behaviour of objects independently of yourself. Whereas rule are things which you yourself have made,. The guarantee of which therefor lies in the creator's own mind. And because physics is less certain than mathematics, this elegation that we ought to try and approximate all forms of knowledge cannot be as valid as decarsico occurs when he suddenly makes human history into an equation.
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