social procedures

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In other words, the social procedures we have for establishing certain types of fact cannot be justified, but they are successful, they pay, and this is why we employ them.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Ceremonies in connection with the arrival of young persons, male and female, at the age of maturity appear to be universal, and they yield in importance to no other class of social procedures.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris