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The Ludwig von Mises Institute  Advancing Austrian Economics,
Liberty, and Peace  Advancing the scholarship of liberty in the
tradition of the Austrian School  Search Mises.org  Chapter 4&5:
The Negation of Value; Determinism and Its Critics     p. 69
1. Determinism    p. 73     [1]. "La science est deterministe;
elle l?est a priori; elle postule le determinisme, parce que
sans lui elle ne pourrait etre." Henri Poincare, Dernieres
pensees (Paris, Flammarion, 1913), p. 244.  p. 74   2. The
Negation of Ideological Factors   From the point of view of this
integral materialism, the only consistent materialist doctrine,
the customary methods of historians and biographers are to be
rejected as idealistic nonsense. It is vain to search for the
development of certain ideas out of other previously held ideas.
For example, it is ?unscientific? to describe how the
philosophical ideas of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
evolved out of those of th