[Fis] Discussion colophon--James Hannam

2011-03-24 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear all, Thank you very much to Pedro for asking me to suggest a discussion for the list and to everyone else for indulging me. As a historian, I have learnt that questions I naively thought were quite simple have turned out to be very complicated indeed. The purpose of history, I

Re: [Fis] Discussion colophon--James Hannam

2011-03-24 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear James and colleagues, I have a few comments to the discussion colophon. First, it seems difficult to explain something which has already happened. For example, one cannot test statistically whether what happened could also have been expected. In the tradition, one distinguished more