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“Rational” in this context seems to mean “prone to reductive and simple explanations”.[1] But I have never heard of a scientific endeavor where people found ou
by avgcorrection 5y ago
“Rational” in this context seems to mean “prone to reductive and simple explanations”.[1] But I have never heard of a scientific endeavor where people found out that things were more simple than they first hypothesized.
[1] And to be contrasted with those idiots who think that humans are “special” since they think that simple theories are not sufficient... or you know, maybe that organisms in general are complex machines or whatever you want to call it and that, yes, there are differences between a maggot, a bird and a human.
- dharmaturtle 5y ago> "All models are wrong, but some are useful."... It is usually considered to be applicable to not only statistical models, *but to scientific models generally*. The aphorism recognizes that statistical or scientific models always fall short of the complexities of reality but can still be of use. Emphasis mine. Human behavior is not physics. Even in that domain though, Newtonian physics is still useful - we just happen to know its limits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
- richardatlarge 5y agoIt's easy to dismiss it, and that's quite predictable. In fact there are a number of fields wholly or party based on Skinner, including Behavioral Pharmacology and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. See also the application to constructionist theories; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning-making https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning-making and see articles such as: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/000579169290019F https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/000579...
- avgcorrection 5y ago> It's easy to dismiss it, and that's quite predictable. Your replies in this thread are quite predictable.