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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 15 Feb 2015

    A manifesto for making the humanities more scientific.http://nyti.ms/1J8DwpJ 

    6:52 PM - 15 Feb 2015
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      1. rens bod‏ @rensbod 20 Feb 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Point is: the humanities are already scientific. Just the remaining hermeneuticists are not aware of it. It's all "Wissenschaft"!

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      1. Smithstorian‏ @Smithstorian 18 Feb 2015
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        “@sapinker: A manifesto for making the #humanities more scientific. http://nyti.ms/1J8DwpJ ” #DigitalHumaniies

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      1. Herman van de Werfhorst‏ @HermanWerfhorst 15 Feb 2015
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        “@sapinker: A manifesto for making the humanities more scientific. http://nyti.ms/1J8DwpJ ” @rensbod

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      1. Leo Lucassen‏ @Leolucassen 15 Feb 2015
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        Will Digitization save the Humanities? "@sapinker: A manifesto for making the humanities more scientific. http://nyti.ms/1J8DwpJ ”

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      1. Ivan Salinas B.‏ @ivansalinasb 15 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker I hope to see a manifesto for making the sciences more humanistic. Then we humans can just enjoy what comes next.

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      1. Sofia Zettermark‏ @zettermark 15 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker What a narrow world view. As if everything worth knowing can be quantified and summarised by numbers.

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      1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 15 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker I find medievalists are more scientific anyway cos we try to discover facts from the past rather than 'interpret' the present.

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      2. Peter Sear‏ @poeticspaces 15 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker @stephiegal how about making the sciences more humanitarian?

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      1. Monique Valcour, PhD PCC‏ @moniquevalcour 16 Feb 2015
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        RT @sapinker: A manifesto for making the humanities more scientific.http://nyti.ms/1J8DwpJ 

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      1. ♕Deborah G. Mayo♕‏ @learnfromerror 15 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker Oh No! This article says humanists will now apply statistical hypotheses testing, but the stat practitioners have enough trouble!

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      1. rhizin‏ @rhizin 15 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker results, they are about flexible processes. If we need something, than more humanity in sciences.

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      1. rhizin‏ @rhizin 15 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker ,what matters it the road of thinking that lead to it. Something scientists seem to not understand. Humanities aren't about ()

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      1. Julia  👻‏ @chidorme 15 Feb 2015
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        Interesting article...thoughts? RT @sapinker: A manifesto for making the humanities more scientific. http://nyti.ms/1J8DpJ 

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      1. rhizin‏ @rhizin 15 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker Humanities aren't about scientific truths, they are about though processes. It doesn't matter if someone is right or wrong, ()

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      1. Ming of Mongo‏ @ming_mongo 15 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker Does every discipline need physics envy?

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      1. rhizin‏ @rhizin 15 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker No,never quantify thought. Look what science, as much as I like it, has done to Economics.Digitizing is great, quantifying is not.

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