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The problems which form social science as a distinct undertaking occur when patterns of behaviour apparently reproduce circumstances in ways which cannot be understood in terms of existing social scientific theories. This combination of theoretical inadequacy and practical adequacy is held to be unique to the social sciences where the objects of study, as creative human beings, can always act in self-determined and potentially novel ways.
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© 1991 John Holmwood and Alexander Stewart
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Holmwood, J., Stewart, A. (1991). Vertical and Horizontal Fallacies. In: Explanation and Social Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13216-4_4
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