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This widely acclaimed account of the role of counterfactuals in explanation deploys extended examples from both history and modern times. Its conclusions cast doubt on existing assumptions about the nature and place of theory, and indeed of the possibility of knowledge itself, in the human sciences.Hawthorn, Geoffrey is the author of 'Plausible Worlds Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences', published 1994 under ISBN 9780521457767 and ISBN 0521457769.
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