One of the biggest problems I have in my thinking is the methodological dualism that I've inherited from Collingwood. I was reading about how German philosophers and sociologists in the 19th and early 20th century made a distinction between the way we explain humans and the way we explain nature. Collingwood took this distinction very seriously and famously argued that humans can only be understood in terms of thought, whereas nature can be handled in terms of laws.
One of the central things driving this kind of methodological divide is that of regularity and by extension prediction.
Gotta go!
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