>Historians believe that the past is irreducibly complex and the future wildly unpredictable. Scientists disagree. Who’s right? Opening quote is an equivocatio

>Historians believe that the past is irreducibly complex and the future wildly unpredictable. Scientists disagree. Who’s right? Opening quote is an equivocation fallacy. Most scientists agree with historians that the issues historians investigate are too complex to be treated the way we treat motion or thermodynamics, with the tools we have at this time.