Chapter 3.1: Carl Hempel, laws in history 

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="23">0:23</a> Historians are not satisfied with knowing facts, they try to answer why things happened when they did. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="104">1:44</a> How do you explain history? <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="144">2:24</a> Many Sciences, Same kind of Scientific Method <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="173">2:53</a> Deductive-Nomonological Model <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="298">4:58</a> Historical events don’t happen by chance, but are governed by laws. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="319">5:19</a> Ex. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="371">6:11</a> Ground for worry. Is the Law true? Some societal change movements fail. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="470">7:50</a> Distinction between Natural Law and History. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="488">8:08</a> Natural Scientist Studies specific things to learn about general laws between all objects. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="520">8:40</a> Historians study particular events, episodes of history. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="566">9:26</a> Some Humanities are like sciences.

Notes: find out what happened in history; lack of historical knowledge is no bueno; want to know more than facts; explain those facts; why history happened as it did; what dos the historian have to add to the bare facts to generate understanding; historical explanations; logical positivists believed all sciences work in the same way, even if they look different on the surface; all the sciences use the same kind of explanation; Hempel and his thinking that explanations are deductive arguments, that they use laws, links between causes and effects that always hold; an explanation that uses at least one law; Hempel: historical explanation aims at showing that the event in question was not a matter of chance but was to be expected; historical events governed by laws; is the law we make our premise actually true? historians don't have the kind of laws that brook no exception like physicist do in their laboratories; a natural scientist takes interest in an event that represents things in general, i.e., study the individual thing to learn about the general type of thing; historians want to understand the details of a particular episode of history, but not to observe it as a thing that she will take as representative of a general type of thing and the laws the govern it; but the humanities are focused on the individual for the most part, whereas natural scientists are interested in inquiring into nature to read off general laws, laws that state a relationship of cause and effect that holds firm despite time and place.

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hi. just to be clear for me, the principal text of this video is ,, The Function of General Laws in History” Carl G. Hempel?

Lenin followed the assumption initiated by K.M. that history followed laws. He therefore initiated a time lapse for the euro asians in order to reach the “inevitably” goal of history quicker.

correct me if i'm wrong- didn't the Vietnam protests help bring troops back home? Didn't they win something?

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If there is no law, pattern or paradigm, why do we say ‘history repeats itself ‘ ?

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Read ‘What Is History?’ by E.H. Carr for further understanding of the laws of History, and the connection of the dots.

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Historians are not scientists!