决定论

• Causal explanation, the historicist maintains, must also be attempted by social sciences .
  历史决定论者认为，社会科学也必须进行因果解释。
• I have tried to present historicism as a well-considered and close-knit philosophy .
  我试图把历史决定论描述为一种考虑周到而结构严谨的哲学。
• Historicism is inclined to stress the importance of prediction as one of the tasks of science .
  历史决定论往往强调预测作为科学任务之一的重要性。
• The same, according to historicism, holds true of society, since society too experiences .
  按照历史决定论看来，这也适用于社会，因为社会也有经验。
• The historicist contends that the experimental method cannot be applied to the social sciences .
  历史决定论者争辩说，实验的方法不能应用于社会科学。
• Historicism claims that nothing is of greater moment than the emergence of a really new period .
  历史决定论声称没有什么事比出现真正的新时期更为重要。
• Admittedly, these misunderstandings have done little harm outside the historicist workshop .
  当然，这些误解在历史决定论的研讨会之外是没有什么害处的。
• This is what historicists mean by saying that the only real laws of sociology are historical laws .
  这就是历史决定论者认为唯一真正的社会学规律是历史规律的本意。
• In so far as historicism is technological, its approach is not piecemeal, but "holistic" .
  仅就历史决定论是一种技术而论，它的方法不是渐进的，而是“整体主义的”。
• Historicists often emphasize that behind such mistaken theories there is usually an apologetic purpose .
  历史决定论者强调，在这些错误的理论反面通常有一种辩解的意图。