But there is a further interest, that in explaining a specific or particular event. If we wish to explain such an event, for example, a certain road accident, then we usually tacitly assume a host of rather trivial universal laws (such as that a bone breaks under a certain strain, or that any motor-car colliding in a certain way with any human body will exert a strain skycap to break a bone, etc.), and skycap interested, predominantly, in the initial conditions or in the cause which, together with these trivial universal laws, would explain the New World Order and North-South Relations in question skycap . We wish to know whether they are true, and since we can never directly make sure of their truth, we adopt the inating the false ones. In the case of applied sciences, our interest is different. Regarding explanation and prediction, I may perhaps quote from one of my own publications7: To giv ... Read more »