Re: Answer to Sven

[Sven R Larson <slarson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Davidson wrote:
> Dear Sven:  I never did beat my wife---or your 8 eight year old
> son -- so stop framing your queries in terms of "when did you stop
> beating your wife questions?"  I am not saying that we are drawing
> one observation from the boiling water universe and the second
> from the ice universe.  I am saying something much more profound
> -- namely there may not be one (or even a finite number of
> universes of realizations that observations are being drawn from.
>
> Paul

Paul,

You are beginning to sound like one of those post modernists who
contaminated much of social sciences outside economics for a long
time. I know you aren't one of them but you're not always helping us
see the difference. Many a thinker has proposed exactly what you're
saying through history, and that only enforces your point. However,
that said you also have to acknowledge that even when the number of
universes is unknown we have to establish fix-points by means of which
we can navigate. Our instruments are blunt but they are the only ones
we have. What about that gift horse, Paul?

/srl

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Dr. Sven R Larson
Department of Economics
Skidmore College
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