RE: Is Keynes a Positivist

[Uche Kaja <uchek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

forgive me for this message, my fingers were too fast  - wrong email

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> Sent:	Wednesday, June 02, 1999 3:45 PM
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> Subject:	RE: Is Keynes a Positivist
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> what you could have done?
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> > Sent:	Wednesday, June 02, 1999 3:42 PM
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> > 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'"
> >
> >                 --  Stephen Parsons, quoting Lawson, in
> >                      his book Economics and Reality, today
> >
> >
> >             Positivism, even logical positivist philosophy,
> >             does not exclude history or sequences of events
> >             not replicable for scientific experiment.
> >
> >             Naturally, connections sought between events
> >             that cannot be isolated for modeling in a
> >             scientific way, must be identified as possibilities
> >             -- not computable probabilities.
> >
> >             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
> >
> >
> >