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- Christopher Green says:
- "Analogy, judgement,
- reasoning, concept formation etc. are in awful shape, as far as I'm conc
- I have seen little in those areas that I would recognize as a theory...
- and they have been my central areas of interest, so it's not as though
- I'm not familiar with their literature."
-
- This comment interests me because for a while now I've had a nagging
- worry that a lot of the so-called theories in these fields were not
- exactly theories. The problem is, I can't put my finger on the
- reason why. I think it partly has to do with the overuse/abuse of
- "models". But there's a lot more to it than that. Chris, how do
- explanations in those fields fall short of your definition of a
- theory?
-
- -Daniel Engelberg
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