Misc. : if all knowledge degenerates into probability---David Hume

[Mark Kohut]

then this from an historian [Jurgen Osterhammel] about his world
history book: "a certain weakness of
explanatory power may rest at the heart of the project, although in principle I
disagree with a postmodernist aversion to causality"

"you're going to want cause & effect"----GR

So, IS M & D sorta above 'explanatory power' as a world historical
novel and full
of dramatized ongoing possibilities/patterns of world history focused
through the
soon-to-be United States experiment?
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