ABSTRACT
This chapter contends that the basic explanatory model underlying the social sciences is an attempt systematically to explore what the author understand to be the notion of the logic of the situation. It is, that situational logic is the only method people have of explaining human behaviour, to keep trying in an imperialistic fashion to push at the vague borderlines of human and behaviour. Until recently, Tryon's behaviour, at the climax of a brilliant career, had been regarded as inexplicable, mad, or drunken. Watkins, however, basing himself on shows how if the attempt is made to reconstruct the problem-situation as Tryon saw it, and as it developed step by step, his planned manoeuvre is easily explained, as are his orders about the boats. Collingwood, of course, was worried that people cannot know all sort of explanation to be true, whilst they can know what Montgomery's plan for a pivotal manoeuvre in the break-out in Normandy.
