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A General Survey of Science - concerning the application of calculus to the political and moral sciences (1793)

In: CONDORCET

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The Marquis de Condorcet (1743–94) was a founding father of social science. He believed that what he called the moral sciences could be studied by the same exacting methods as the natural sciences, and he developed many of the tools for doing so.

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  • ., 1994. "A General Survey of Science - concerning the application of calculus to the political and moral sciences (1793)," Chapters, in: Iain McLean & Fiona Hewitt (ed.), CONDORCET, chapter 1, pages 93-110, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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