Predicting the future

Whether there is a future to predict is not a question many people care to think about too deeply, though the process of predicting the future has itself a history. We did not always predict from the same assumptions as we do now, or for the same reasons. Today, on the basis of empirical observation...

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Ngôn ngữ:Undetermined
Được phát hành: Cambridge [England] Cambridge University Press 1993
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