Practice question · Select all that apply
What makes Ibn Khaldun’s cycle a genuine model rather than a metaphor?
Hints
- A model names a variable, a cause, a tempo and a domain.
- Claiming universality would have made it untestable.
Show the answer
- A. It identifies the cause of decay: the comfort that success buys
- B. It states a tempo and a domain where it should apply
- C. It names a variable (cohesion) that rises and falls
Why
Variable, cause, tempo, domain, a model that can be checked and therefore broken. Claiming universality would have made it grander and worthless; the limits are what give it teeth.
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