/lit/ - Literature

>>16809831
a short history of ethics was pretty comfy

>>10654871
>believes the """thing""" can be separated from the language and the tradition

Fuck off loser virgin.

>>10302230
why are you here instead of working overtime to pay reparations?

The only man that matters.

>>8212755
pic related macintyre? only came across him during my political science BA. from a quick google search I get that he denies that social sciences have any predictive power? if so, than this is one of the cases where, once again, social scientists have once again misunderstood what constitutes predictive power in the natural sciences and how it is achieved.

the conclusion that social sciences lack the ability to predict is contradicted by the immense precision of polls and market mechanisms (albbeit both weren't enough to predict brexit). both an electoral system and a stock market have to be engineered in a specific way, however, to allow for predictions. if the structures necessary for that are lacking, you cannot make predictions.