Damned if I know. Clarity of an assertion about how the world works with intent to revise against subsequent experience?
Probably spent too much time in Vienna. Mike >>> "Robert Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/12/08 5:31 PM >>> Let me see if I've followed David's argument... science doesn't need math and it doesn't need to possess any predictive power and - given the cultural/individual specificity of metaphors - reproducibility seems kinda optional. So exactly what does something need to make it science? Robert On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Prof David West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As a human being, and as an anthropologist, I can make predictions and > create predictive models based on a largely non-conscious understanding > of culture. Such predictions are not based on mathematics (a > mathematics of culture is pragmatically impossible at the moment). > Predictive models do not a science make. > > davew > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
