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His ob ject i s t o enab le the material to be used more e f f ect ive l y i n the cons t r ucThis major d i fference in t i on of some artifa ct or str uc ture . attitude be t ween the scient is t and technologist might properly be r efe r r e d t o as t he t eleological dist i nc tion be ca us e i t re lates t o purposes or aims. The second cau s e of the d i fferenc e in the nat ur e of scienc e and te chn ology lies in the bas i c pre supposition s be hi nd the s e t wo human endeavours . Sc ie nce .

At the en d of c hap t e r 2 we noted an important difference between the aims of scien ce a nd t echn ology, which we ca l l ed the tele ological distinction . One c onse que nce i s a s follows . In its e ffort to expl ain ph en omen a, a sci e nt i f ic inves tigation can wander at will as unfores e en results s ugges t new path s t o follow. Moreover, s uc h investigations never end because they always throw up further qu estions . The esse nc e of te chnological invest igations is that they a r e dire cted towards s e r vi ng the process of de signing and manufacturing or cons t r uc t i ng particular thin gs whose purpose ha s be en c l ear ly defin ed.

To do this se lecti on , t he hist orian must make use of some gener a l isations about the way human beings behave , bo th singley and in groups . These general isa t i on s , however , are seldom explic itly stated , a nd i ns t ead the process i s r efer r ed to a s t he ' e xer ci s e of h istorical j udgemen t'. Hi s difficulty i s that he cannot merely use his exper ien ce of how huma n beings l iving now behave: he ha s t o thi nk hims e l f i nt o t he minds of those living in the age "he i s studying.

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