ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the identification of epidemiological phenomena in classical epidemiology often arises out of the study of individual pathology, but the converse is true: the identification of particular diseases is often aided by epidemiological considerations. In the case of mental things such as memories or reasonings, cognitive psychologists accept at least a form of minimal materialism, which has precise methodological implications. The view of cultural transmission as a process of replication is grounded not only in a biological analogya genie mutation is an accident, replication is the norm but also in two dominant biases in the social sciences. Anthropologists and psychologists alike tend to assume that humans are rational not perfectly rational, not rational all the time, but rational enough. Thus Gdel's proof, and scientific theories generally, become cultural beliefs of a different tenor, accepted on different grounds by the scientists themselves and by the community at large.
