The Dappled World¶
Cartwright, N. (1999). The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science. Cambridge University Press.
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Primes¶
- Ceteris Paribus
- A second move is to check whether the analysis is making implicit ceteris-paribus assumptions that have not been declared: most failed predictions in social science and policy trace to implicit "all else equal" assumptions that turn out wrong, and the remedy is to make implicit assumptions explicit, not to attempt the full coupled analysis, which is usually infeasible.
This sourceArgues that scientific laws — including in economics and social science — hold only ceteris paribus, under stable background ("nomological-machine") conditions, so predictions fail when the held-fixed conditions are absent or unstated; the remedy is to make those conditions explicit.
- A second move is to check whether the analysis is making implicit ceteris-paribus assumptions that have not been declared: most failed predictions in social science and policy trace to implicit "all else equal" assumptions that turn out wrong, and the remedy is to make implicit assumptions explicit, not to attempt the full coupled analysis, which is usually infeasible.
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