RE: Is Keynes a Positivist

[Uche Kaja <uchek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

what you could have done?

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> Sent:	Wednesday, June 02, 1999 3:42 PM
> To:	POST-KEYNESIAN THOUGHT
> Subject:	Re: Is Keynes a Positivist
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>             "If science is to be at all possible, it must take
>             the form of elaborating regularities of the type
>             'whenever event x then event y'"
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>                 --  Stephen Parsons, quoting Lawson, in
>                      his book Economics and Reality, today
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>             Positivism, even logical positivist philosophy,
>             does not exclude history or sequences of events
>             not replicable for scientific experiment.
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>             Naturally, connections sought between events
>             that cannot be isolated for modeling in a
>             scientific way, must be identified as possibilities
>             -- not computable probabilities.
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>             We must not be sore just because most of life
>             remains a mystery.  Living with mystery and
>             its possibilities, whilst converting to probability
>             some data that is amenable to rigorous examination,
>             is what we humans do.  And many us say we are
>             positivists while we do it.
>
>                     John Gelles
>                     http://www.1944.org
>                     http://www.rain.org/~jjgelles/1944.html
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