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What distinguishes the "social" sciences from the "hard" sciences? Or is there no such distinction?
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February 23, 2011

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Oliver Leaman
March 3, 2011 (changed March 3, 2011) Permalink

There is at least one difference. The hard sciences are capable of predicting what is going to happen before it does. The social sciences have great difficulty explaining why something happened in the way it did even after it happened, and very little success in predicting the future.

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