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The story of the sciences in the 20th Century is one of a steady loss of certainty. Much of what was real and machine-like and objective and determinate at the start of the century, by mid-century was a phantom, unpredictable, subjective and indeterminate. What had defined science at the start of the century—its power to predict, its clear subject/object distinction—no longer defines it at the end. Science after science has lost its innocence. Science after science has grown up.
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Arthur, W.B. (1999). The End of Certainty in Economics. In: Aerts, D., Broekaert, J., Mathijs, E. (eds) Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection. Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4704-0_14
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