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Re: Interesting Take on Modeling

Greetings Economists,
On Feb 22, 2007, at 8:38 AM, ravi wrote:

An obsession (which seems to dominate
non-mathematicians enamored with the "mathematical method") with formal
syntactic systems, consistency and reductionism at the cost of
explanatory power and scope


Doyle;
Obsession in this case is being used in the non-pathology metaphorical
sense.  It's not related to actual obsession cognition some people
have.  The term here describes social rigidity of a group as obsessive.
 A tautology in my view.
Doyle

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