William Hardy McNeill Quote

When terms... evolve and change definition with time; and when the social reality which terms are intended to organize and render intelligible is also seen to be in flux, capturing the truth in a net of words becomes a matter of intuition and style more than of any scientific method that can be replicated by others and made to achieve the same result every time someone asks the same question, or undertakes the same operations.


Discrepancies among the Social Sciences (1981)


When terms... evolve and change definition with time; and when the social reality which terms are intended to organize and render intelligible is...

When terms... evolve and change definition with time; and when the social reality which terms are intended to organize and render intelligible is...

When terms... evolve and change definition with time; and when the social reality which terms are intended to organize and render intelligible is...

When terms... evolve and change definition with time; and when the social reality which terms are intended to organize and render intelligible is...