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Meanings of historical science in English

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ciència de la història

Subclass of science in which studied data are collected by examining past events, rather than by performing direct experimentation on the subjects being studied.

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      Out of these controversies proceeded political as well as historical science.
      Lectures on Modern history
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      The "long argument" for historical science operates at two poles-methodologicaland theoretical.
      The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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      A nice problem, considering the historical science of the period!
      Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning
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      But it's also full of real-world historical science.
      Wired
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      Bourdeau, a disciple of this school, looks forward to the time when historical science will become entirely quantitative.
      Darwin and Modern Science
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      The bare rudiments of an historical science may be said to be crudely outlined in his defective lists of kings.
      A History of Science — Volume 1
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      Troublesome questions these, with which Lincoln and the men of his time did not deal in the spirit of historical science.
      Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
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      Its subject-matter is not, like that of pure ethnology, what man is, but, like that of any other historical science, what man does.
      Harvard Classics Volume 28 / Essays English and American
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      Historical sciences are concerned with chains of proximate and ultimate causes.
      Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
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      What we call here soft historical sciences are narrative dependent studies.
      The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable
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      Such methodological problems have been discussed in great detail for some of the historical sciences.
      Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
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      We have thus four fundamental groups: the physical, the psychological, the normative and the historical sciences.
      Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 / Containing Sixteen Exp...
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      COMME, L. Folklore as a Historical Science.
      The Meaning of Witchcraft
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      In the domain of Historical Science the labourers are few and far between; there research proceeds with lagging steps.
      The Coming of the Friars
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      But in truth the uncertainty is no greater than the uncertainty which attends all inquiries in the historical sciences.
      Harvard Classics Volume 28 / Essays English and American
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      The study of human history does pose real difficulties, but those recognized historical sciences encounter some of the same challenges.
      Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
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