This is very helpful in specifying the non-Marxist point of view on > this point. Marx's position is the opposite of this. Science is based > in discovering necessary connections. Here "necessary" is exactly as in > the logical _modus ponens_ or "if-then", if p, then q, q is a necessary > condition of p. In the Realm of Necessity, ( Marx and Engels used the > term "necessity" here precisely to make the point I am making here) > there is a science of human conduct based on the things that human must > do. As Marx and Engels had to explain to "the Germans" in _The German > Ideology_, humans have physiological necessities. In meeting these, > there arise scientifically discernable patterns in their behavior ( See > the theses on materialism I just posted to the list yesterday.
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