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8 timestamped hits 2 source readings 2 extracted notes Aliases: social-sciences

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Social Science

He distinguishes social science, which tries to mathematize what drives people, from literature, which expresses truths that cannot be mathematically quantified.

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Lecture claim dated 2025-03-27.

definition

Jiang says social scientists diagnose problems; solutions are left to later collective work.

Method distinction stated on 2024-06-13.

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He distinguishes social science, which tries to mathematize what drives people, from literature, which expresses truths that cannot be mathematically quantified.

Timestamped Evidence

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

Transcript

"Okay, that's a great question, okay? Okay, so these are social scientists. And the thing about social scientists is they feel their responsibility is..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

Transcript

"...Simmel. They're all sociologists. They're considered three major founders of the social sciences, okay? And they're all contemporaries. They were all writing about the..."

The Bureaucracy That Ate China

2025-03-13, day precision · Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom

Transcript

"...he, so, I mean, he is, he used a lot of social science analysis. He used a lot of social science analysis and research..."

Islam As Proto-Modernity

2025-03-11, day precision · Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam

Transcript

"...world. This is Ibn Khaldun and he's considered the father of social science Okay economics Quantity of history politics this man A man invented..."

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The Future Is What You Make Happen

2024-06-13, day precision · claims

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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...

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