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by dragonwriter
2450 days ago
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> So, punishment as a deterrent is currently a theory. The use of “theory” in that sentence is not in the scientific sense; it is a philosophical rather than a predictive model. (There are predictive models of deterrence, some of which might be theories, or perhaps hypotheses, in the scientific sense, but that's not what the quote is discussing.) |
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