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> The ideal of scientific rigor is certainly laudable There is no scientific rigor so there is nothing to laud. Economics is on the same level as astrology in
by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> The ideal of scientific rigor is certainly laudable
There is no scientific rigor so there is nothing to laud. Economics is on the same level as astrology in that "math" is used to gain the appearance and legitimacy of "science".
> The discipline raises the questions of philosophy of mathematics and logic (and thus we should say language). How do mathematical models relate to the world? Is it the Tractatus, or Philosophical Investigations?
The problem has nothing to do with mathematical models. It has to do with testability and reproducibility.
- mediocrejoker 9y ago> Economics is on the same level as astrology in that "math" is used to gain the appearance and legitimacy of "science". I wasn't aware that astrology uses even the pretense of math, however I'm admittedly not well-versed in astrology.
- stan_rogers 9y agoThere was a time when astronomy was only a component of astrology, and astrophysics/cosmology is what happened when science-minded astrologers figured out the whole thing couldn't work because their attempts to make ever more accurate "predictions" (soothsaying) based on ever more accurate predictions (of the positions of celestial bodies) told them the universe was arranged just a little bit differently than they'd supposed. What is now purely pseudoscience was once a proto-science; the woo was still woo, but there was actual science there as well.