Re: The conflict at Notre Dame

[David Gleicher <104201.2301@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>How does the kind of math econ you are defending keep these
> implications [of the ontological fact of internal relations for the
> use of axiomatic, mathematical and quantitative methods] in mind?<

Does the mastery of a 'fruitful' mthematicl model not also reveal--the more
deeply you pursue it--the model's limiitations, self-contradictions, etc,
and in that way doesn't such a mathematical model force the 'ontoilogical
fact of internal relations'  upon you in a way nothing else can?  That
seems to me what gives the 'fruitful'models much of their value.

It is ever thus that, in the words of Goethe:

Gray, my friend, is every theory
and green alone life's golden trees.

DG



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