"In the past few years here, there is a climate of looking in other directions, of seeking causes, even if they are not direct causes".
External history of science seeks causes of scientific change in social, political, religious and other developments of science.
That a number of different methods might be assimilated here is not noted, although the text does go on to distinguish four main types of 'issues concerning things': seeking causes by their effects, seeking effects by their causes, finding the whole from the parts, and looking for another part from the whole and a given part (ibid., 234).
But Spring shies away from laying blame, passing judgment, seeking causes, or reading between the lines.
Indeed, as Tolstoy put it, "The need to seek causes has been put into the soul of man".
For recommendations to be targeted towards the meso- and macro-levels of the organisation, the model used for investigation needs to seek causes at the level of organisational interactions and relationships.
"Am I the only one who saw the ad: barely elected rebel seeks cause?" The crowd roared.
But the government refused to agree to the terms Mrs. Fastow was seeking, causing the negotiations to collapse on Friday.
It's no surprise that each generation seeks cause for conflict with the generations a little earlier.
But even the largest such events were viewed as essentially local; and geologists sought local causes for them, often with enormous sophistication and ingenuity.
The most common information sought regarded causes of cervical cancer (68.2% of responses), followed by treatment (35.5%) and symptoms (30.0%).
