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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... University, claimed, to quote "The Economist" quoting the "Psychologist", that: "Experimental evidence suggesting a link between Ecstasy use and ... ...treatment in the future). Even the authoritative and mainstream 1995 "Handbook of Experimental Economics", by John Hagel and Alvin Roth (eds.) adm... ...e.g., a musical piece) in terms of this type of intuition. Many mathematicians and physicists (following a kind of Pythagorean tradition) use emerg... ...ong scientists. The Anthropic Principle, for instance, promoted by many outstanding physicists, claims that the nature of the Universe is preordaine... ...y. l. Laws of parsimony entail the arbitrary selection of facts, observations and experimental results to be related to and included in the parsim... ...aningful questions and to the expectation of receiving meaningful replies to them (experimental outcomes). This lands us where we started: the psyc... ... company all around. Some criticism is offered by practicing scientists - mainly experimentalists - in the life and exact (physical) sciences. Su... ...rialism with reductionism or instrumentalism and correlation with causation. Few physicists, neuroscientists, biologists, and chemists seem to ha... ... in particular, are unprofessionally vague and ambiguous. Professional theoretical physicists ought to be able to do better. Bohm has shown us a wa...

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