Difference between revisions of "Fallacies Of Philosophy"
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They are usually prescientific. David Hume wrote: | They are usually prescientific. David Hume wrote: | ||
{{QuoteOne | Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding/flames}} | {{QuoteOne | Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding/flames}} | ||
| − | When confronted with real-world problems that could have multiple causes, logical verbal models are insufficient. You MUST introduce measurement and mathematics into your models if you want to have any hope of valid answers. Logical verbal models are sufficient to specify possible chains (or networks) of causation, but telling which are significant is a quantitative problem that requires measurement. See: [[The Parable Of The Ship]]. | + | When confronted with real-world problems that could have multiple causes, logical verbal models are insufficient. You MUST introduce measurement and mathematics into your models if you want to have any hope of valid answers. Logical verbal models are sufficient to specify possible chains (or networks) of causation, but telling which are significant is a quantitative problem that requires measurement. See: [[Parable of the ship: why Austrian Economics fails.|The Parable Of The Ship]]. |
Economics has a branch called econometrics which is concerned with providing empirical content. Philosophy usually lacks such content, and is usually backed with gut feelings and blustering authority. Better alternatives would be roots in scientific aspects of psychology, anthropology, evolution, and other fields. | Economics has a branch called econometrics which is concerned with providing empirical content. Philosophy usually lacks such content, and is usually backed with gut feelings and blustering authority. Better alternatives would be roots in scientific aspects of psychology, anthropology, evolution, and other fields. | ||
