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could change society and change their way of life. Instead of being made completely by gods, there was increasing room for the idea that people themselves made their own society--and not only that, as Giambattista Vico argued, because people made their own society, they could also fully comprehend it. This gave rise to new sciences, or proto-sciences, which claimed to provide new scientific knowledge about what society was like, and how one may change it for the

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