ABSTRACT
The implications for Soros’s view are twofold: first, when it comes to the philosophical version of whether the methods of natural and social science can in principle be the same, there is no reason why Soros should not agree. Agreeing to the philosophical thesis leaves Soros the freedom rightly to emphasize that the differences of degree between human affairs and infra-human biological processes are so great that whatever the level of predictive knowledge we can acquire in the biological domain, the prospects are far poorer in the human domain.
