Social sciences?
When you use the term “social sciences,” do you use “the”?
What I’d like to focus on is those parts of the social sciences that would be called scientific rather than philosophical.
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teacherJapan When you use the term “social sciences,” do you use “the”? The sentence is so ambiguous I can't tell whether to use the article or not. If we know what "those" refers to, do not use the article, and it means that you will be looking exclusively at the aforementioned parts of the scientific sciences.
- teacherJapan When you use the term “social sciences,” do you use “the”?
- The sentence is so ambiguous I can't tell whether to use the article or not.
- If we know what "those" refers to, do not use the article, and it means that you will be looking exclusively at the aforementioned parts of the scientific sciences.
- If we don't know what "those" refers to, use the article, and it means that you will be looking at the scientific parts of those sciences in general.
- If I found I had written that, I would hope I'd have the sense to drop back ten and punt.
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teacherJapanWhen you use the term “social sciences,” do you use “the”?
The sentence is so ambiguous I can't tell whether to use the article or not. If we know what "those" refers to, do not use the article, and it means that you will be looking exclusively at the aforementioned parts of the scientific sciences. If we don't know what "those" refers to, use t
0I'd use 'the' in that case because of the modifying relative clause.
I'm going more by ear than by grammar rules.
CJ
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