From: Ian Wright (ian_paul_wright@HOTMAIL.COM)
Date: Thu Jun 12 2003 - 12:40:01 EDT
Hello Michael, "Violence" is a physical attack. A scientific abstraction isn't. Of course a model can fit some empirical data and still be wrong. If that were not the case, scientific work would simply be the application of machine learning to data sets. -Ian. Michael wrote: >The question is what violence is done to the phenomena in transferring a >model >from statistical mechanics to social phenomena of exchange (apart from the >question of what violence is done to the physical phenomena by modelling >them >with statistical mechanics). > >The empirical correctness of a model has nothing to do with truth. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
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