Paul Diesing: "The most serious deficiency of implicit formal theories is that the verbal language disguises the abstractness of the theory … The consequence of the fallacy of misplaced concreteness is that the theory looks too convincing to its proponents … He becomes the prisoner of his own logical model and is rendered incapable of seeing reality from any other standpoint …"Mistaking a map for the territory.
Classic error.
Virtually everyone makes it by mistaking their map (worldview) for the territory (reality). Even so-called experts in cognitive disciplines often make it.
“verbal language disguises the abstractness of the theory “
ReplyDeleteNot disguised for those with adequate trained ability to abstract... those without the ability to abstract are only left with the language which is inadequate when dealing with material systems..
Pure Language only: the figure of speech “money”...
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ReplyDeleteThrow them out! Orthodox and heterodox economists are unfit for science
https://axecorg.blogspot.de/2017/12/throw-them-out-orthodox-and-heterodox.html
There is no soft science only soft brains
https://axecorg.blogspot.com/2018/07/there-is-no-soft-science-only-soft.html
Cryptoeconomics ― the best of Lars Syll’s spam folder
https://axecorg.blogspot.com/2018/01/cryptoeconomics-best-of-lars-sylls-spam.html
Wikipedia and the promotion of economists’ idiotism (II)
https://axecorg.blogspot.com/2018/07/wikipedia-and-promotion-of-economists.html
For details of the big picture see cross-references Failed/Fake Scientists
https://axecorg.blogspot.com/2015/11/failedfake-scientists-cross-references.html
Egmont Kakarot-Handtke
In connection with this, I was recently reading about people who have had “out-of-body” experiences in which they visited various dimensions. One of these dimensions is the so-called “astral plane” where most people go when they die. In the astral plane are myriad “consensus realities,” each created by the beliefs of people who live in them. That is, groups of like-minded people share common beliefs that create and sustain an entire world for them. For these people, their world is just as solid as the physical world is to us. Their beliefs (most of which are false) are absolutely true for them. Incontrovertible. “Common sense.” People are trapped in these consensus realities until they reincarnate in the physical realm, or else they learn to question their beliefs.
ReplyDeleteIt is the same here on earth. People with shared beliefs create a consensus reality that they remain trapped inside of until they learn to question their beliefs. Their beliefs (most of which are false) are absolutely true for them. Incontrovertible. They are “obvious” and “common sense.”
All consensus realities are temporary, since humans are constantly changing and evolving, some faster than others. But while people are trapped in a consensus reality, nothing outside it is “real.”
Everyone outside the consensus reality is "unfit for science," and has "soft brains," and are "idiots," and are "failed / fake scientists" (to use words from a person above who is trapped in a bizarre reality).
Konrad
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All models are false because all economists are stupid
http://axecorg.blogspot.de/2016/09/all-models-are-false-because-all.html
Lars Syll, fake scientist
http://axecorg.blogspot.com/2018/01/lars-syll-fake-scientist.html
The Kelton-Fraud
https://axecorg.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-kelton-fraud.html
Beware of the moralizing economist
http://axecorg.blogspot.com/2018/06/beware-of-moralizing-economist.html
For details of the big picture see cross-references Failed/Fake Scientists
https://axecorg.blogspot.com/2015/11/failedfake-scientists-cross-references.html
and cross-references Scientific Incompetence
http://axecorg.blogspot.com/2015/07/incompetence-cross-references.html
Egmont Kakarot-Handtke
They are not trained via the proper methodology they have Art degrees...
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