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Help with English please
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15 Sep 2007 Sat 05:23 pm |
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Do I understand this text below correctly if I make my definition of Historicism like this?
- The theory of the essential succession of developments that lead to a (final) result, and the influence of the surroundings and specific characteristics on these events/developments. Underlying patterns and rhythms in the evolution of history, give a certain 'predictability' to history (a sort of Cause and Effect theory).
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Historicism is the theory that claims:
that there is an organic succession of developments (also known as historism or the German historismus), and
that local conditions and peculiarities influence the results in a decisive way.
Karl Popper used the term historicism to mean: "an approach to the social sciences which assumes that historical prediction is their primary aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the 'rhythms' or the 'patterns', the 'laws' or the 'trends' that underlie the evolution of history".
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15 Sep 2007 Sat 05:41 pm |
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i should go to school to learn english more 
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15 Sep 2007 Sat 05:48 pm |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: Do I understand this text below correctly if I make my definition of Historicism like this?
- The theory of the essential succession of developments that lead to a (final) result, and the influence of the surroundings and specific characteristics on these events/developments. Underlying patterns and rhythms in the evolution of history, give a certain 'predictability' to history (a sort of Cause and Effect theory).-- |
Absolutely! You astound me!
Quoting Deli_kizin:
(a sort of Cause and Effect theory).-- |
Spot on 
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15 Sep 2007 Sat 06:03 pm |
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Quoting AEnigma III:
Absolutely! |
GREAT  Thanks a lot. The more of English I see, read and talk, the more I notice how little I know. And I had to read the article more than once to understand what it meant Organic sounds to me as something made of plants
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15 Sep 2007 Sat 06:04 pm |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: Quoting AEnigma III:
Absolutely! |
GREAT Thanks a lot. The more of English I see, read and talk, the more I notice how little I know. And I had to read the article more than once to understand what it meant Organic sounds to me as something made of plants
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Well the origin of organic is "living matter" but it is also used to mean "natural growth/progress".
As to knowing "little" - I can assure you that you know a hell of a lot more than most English people!
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16 Sep 2007 Sun 03:51 am |
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Quoting AEnigma III: As to knowing "little" - I can assure you that you know a hell of a lot more than most English people! |
Extremely sad but definitely true 
There is little hope for the survival of the full extent of the English language if entrusted to the indiginous population.
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