- Methodology, Philosophy, Social sciences, History
Possibilities haunt history. The force of our explanations of events turns on the alternative possibilities those explanations suggest. It is these possible worlds that give us our understanding; and in human affairs, we decide them by practical rather than theoretical judgment.
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Cool, grave, earnest and spare.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Geoffrey Hawthorn
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 199
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780521457767
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“It can be tempting to play what E. H. Carr called 'parlour-games with might-have-beens'.”
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