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Re: more squiggly lines



Alan:

Re. the following:

> A more egregious misreading of this simple quote is hard to imagine,
> especially given the dead-give-away phrase "in a true and physical
> sense".  How much can we twist the observation that it is convenient
> to represent the physical attraction between objects as an attraction
> between their centers, which are of course only mathematical points?
> I guess you are out to show us ...

Yes, as indicated by your resort to rhetorical assertion in lieu of reasoned
argument, you guess right - contemporary economics exemplifies the kind of
'science' of which Albert Einstein wrote:

"Science without epistemology is - insofar as it is thinkable at all -
primitive and muddled."

Gunnar








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