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There are many definitions of model-based sciences, which have a different philosophical meaning. This is due to the fact that the signification of the term ‘model’ is ambiguous: some of these...
01 January 2018 7,995 4 View
We can say that we have doubly censored information in the occurrence of an event when we don’t know the exact time of its occurrence, but only that it may have occurred during a given period. I...
11 November 2017 9,374 0 View
Many mathematicians think that physical and biological sciences cannot be really considered as mathematics. Many physicians and biologists consider that social sciences cannot be really considered...
10 October 2015 4,607 23 View
In his book on Opticks (1704) Newton clearly described the method he used to proceed from particulars to more universal conclusions with this strong rejection of hypotheses. And it has been...
08 August 2015 4,570 11 View
Fisher introduced the concept of fiducial inference in his paper on Inverse probability (1930), as a new mode of reasoning from observation to the hypothetical causes without any a priori...
05 May 2015 7,305 46 View
Every scientific activity has some relationship, negative or positive, with the other ways of human thinking, which may occur in diverse instances, such as religion (i.e. hermeneutics), politics,...
10 October 2014 3,755 10 View
There are four Idols – errors of thinking and judgement – according to Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum (1620) which beset human minds. These are Idols of the Tribe – false assertions that the sense...
10 October 2013 9,331 14 View
In the past cumulativeness in natural science was entirely recognized by the main scientists. For example Newton wrote: If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the...
09 September 2013 7,984 1 View
Ten years ago, I wrote with Atam Vetta a paper on 'Demographic behavior and behavior genetics', which showed clearly that Fisher's assumptions and heritability analysis are based on false...
07 July 2013 2,856 5 View
John Holland in his books on Hidden Order (1995) and Emergence (1998) shows that a small number of rules or laws can generate systems of surprising complexity, but concludes on saying that it is a...
06 June 2013 9,457 14 View
In social sciences many kinds of rates are estimated but they rarely permit a true international comparison due to the effect of time, space, etc. For example, for internal migration only...
04 April 2013 4,542 2 View
We, along with Atam Vetta, have previously given a negative answer to this question. We will, however, be happy to have the answers of other researchers involved in this field.
01 January 2013 9,250 28 View
Since the dawn of the appearance of political elites, astrology (in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, China, etc.) or religion (in the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, Christian Roman...
01 January 1970 2,237 2 View
We organised a life history survey and compared its results with data on population registers in Belgium. The main result was that even if errors in dating of past events are frequent, these do...
01 January 1970 4,655 1 View
From 2003 to nowadays we undertook a fight against the theses of eugenics, hereditarianism and behaviour genetics which lead to racism and more awful eugenic experiments. I give you here some...
01 January 1970 5,576 1 View
In my book on Probability and social science, I thought that Ramsey laid the foundations of the subjective approach to probability, while Kolmogorov axiomatized objective probability and Keynes...
01 January 1970 703 0 View
Aristotle wrote in Politics III the following sentences: "But there are difficulties about these forms of government, and it will therefore be necessary to state a little more at length the...
01 January 1970 9,993 97 View
Dear Dennis, I am interested in your project on Human memory as we (Michel Poulain, Benoît Riandey, Jean-Marie Firdion and me) undertook An assessment of the validity of retrospective survey...
01 January 1970 923 3 View
Individuals belonging to a given population will have an unlimited number of different characteristics other than those assigning them to that particular population. However a true social science...
01 January 1970 2,212 4 View
