Hola Carlos. (I'm in Buenos Aires) I don't want to separate theory from practice like that. And "coherent" in the Euclidean sense of consistent axioms isn't what I meant by "clarity." Clarity can be about where in the assertion contradictions and contingencies are made explicit, the sorts of things that make for an interesting ABM.
I dunno, I just work here. Mike On Jul 13, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Carl Tollander wrote: > Coherent is good, but an epithet we usually reserve for scientific > theories more than science per se. > > Michael Agar wrote: >> 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 >> >> > > ============================================================ > 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
