Von Osten’s Horse, Hamlet’s Question, and the Mechanistic View of Causality: Implications for a Post-Crisis Social Psychology Ralph L. Rosnow, Temple University The Journal of Mind and Behavior, Summer 1983, Volume 4, Number 3, Pages 319–337, ISSN 0271–0137 Every science subsumes within it hidden assumptions that, while not empirical in nature, give meaning to empirical