It’s not just economics 6 Aug 2009 “The real world is a special case.” Horngren’s Observation Philosophy Quotes Quotes
Epistemology The view from nowhere and objectivity in the media [revised] 14 Nov 2010 Okay, after a solid bout of teaching, I can return to this piece. Rosen has attacked my interpretation, and rightly so. I ascribed to him views he did not hold. But, as I say elsewhere, this blog is for ill-formed thoughts that happen to pass through my forebrain. The particular… Read More
Education Interdisciplinarity never works 18 Jun 2010 Wait until the psych students convince the physics students that they are just hallucinating their pendulums. The the philosophy students will show them all that it’s just a matter of an error in language and they can all go about getting on with their oof!… where did that come from? Read More
Epistemology Metaphysical determinism 20 May 201227 Aug 2012 There is a hypothesis called the Sapir-Whorf Thesis (also known as linguistic relativity) in language that one can only think what one’s language permits you to think, and indeed forces you to think. This idea that some conceptual scheme can determine how you think is widely held. It appears again… Read More
All right, I’ll ask the obvious question – How does he know? how many other worlds did he live in? (OK, two obvious questions)
Pretty obvious. Any theoretical model one can set up has an indefinite number of values each parameter can take. It follows that each coordinate is a special case of the model. The world is therefore (since it must be represented by a coordinate if the model is adequate) a special case.