Thread: Losing perspective -- no "big picture"
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Old February 3rd 07, 06:56 PM posted to sci.econ,sci.astro,sci.physics,sci.math,sci.environment
Mark M.
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Default Losing perspective -- no "big picture"
Les Cargill wrote:
Bob Kolker wrote:

(David P.) wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_world

From the time of Newton, or perhaps even Descartes,


many branches of modern science (perhaps the most
extreme example being economics) have been
increasingly accused of losing perspective due to their
over-stretched efforts to find explanations of nature
which are easily analysed in terms of easily measured
and easily mathematicised terms.



Economics is NOT a science. It never was a science. It will never be a
science.


Then your definition of science is far, far too restrictive. Physics
was a science, even when it was about phlogiston. The point of
it *being* science is the method by which it changes, not
the end result.

Extremely well said, Les.

Mark M.