指总于对未来社会现象、过程、事件的可能性的科学判断。即专门研究和分析人们在政治、经济、文化等领域一旦发生变动时可能出现的行为和结果,并据以制定可供选择的各种应付方案。孔德(A·Comte)认为社会现象和物质现象一样,也受自然规律的制约,有合 Refers to the scientific judgment of the possibility of future social phenomena, processes and events. That is, to study and analyze people’s behaviors and results that may occur in the political, economic and cultural fields once they are changed, so as to formulate various options for coping with them. Comte argues that social phenomena, like material phenomena, are also governed by the laws of nature,