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42 sats \ 4 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 6 Aug \ parent \ on: Jeff Bezos’s Yacht: Driver of Economic Activity econ
Yes, that certainly does simplify the situation completely! Perhaps they have been burned enough by that single simplification to not use it at every turn in their reasoning. The whole idea behind the human action idea is that everything changes at almost every change in situations. Never are two situations the same.
That's true, but also completely intractable for analysis purposes.
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Perhaps logical, verbal reasoning can handle this sort of analysis. Situations just don’t remain the same over multiple trials even with simplifications, do they?
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You can't possibly formulate a sentence, much less an argument, that describes everything that's changing and accounts for every possibility.
Mathematical notation is generally more parsimonious, not less. That's basically why it exists.
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Yes, that is as it is. Mathematical notation is much more parsimonious than language but simplifies, sometimes, beyond the limits of the problem.
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