{"title":"Envoi","authors":"Reviel Netz","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2022.2130593","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"(The sense of ‘X→ Y’ is ‘X made Y substantially more probable’). I concluded that while (1) has merit and is worth pursuing, it is only (2) which is in fact compelling. I now learned that it would be preferable to curtail (2) further. The curtailment of the consequent is straightforward. Much of the discussion in this volume concerned the difficulties of counterfactual history. I find now that it is intemperate to seek to explain something such as ‘The Industrial Revolution’. This event is messy and multicausal, and quite obviously categorically different from ‘Greek Mathematics’. It is, however, interesting enough to argue","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","FirstCategoryId":"103","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2022.2130593","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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(The sense of ‘X→ Y’ is ‘X made Y substantially more probable’). I concluded that while (1) has merit and is worth pursuing, it is only (2) which is in fact compelling. I now learned that it would be preferable to curtail (2) further. The curtailment of the consequent is straightforward. Much of the discussion in this volume concerned the difficulties of counterfactual history. I find now that it is intemperate to seek to explain something such as ‘The Industrial Revolution’. This event is messy and multicausal, and quite obviously categorically different from ‘Greek Mathematics’. It is, however, interesting enough to argue
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Interdisciplinary Science Reviews is a quarterly journal that aims to explore the social, philosophical and historical interrelations of the natural sciences, engineering, mathematics, medicine and technology with the social sciences, humanities and arts.