Monday , May 6 2024
Home / Tag Archives: fallacy of misplaced concreteness

Tag Archives: fallacy of misplaced concreteness

Lars P. Syll — Using economics as a propaganda device

Paul Diesing: "The most serious deficiency of implicit formal theories is that the verbal language disguises the abstractness of the theory … The consequence of the fallacy of misplaced concreteness is that the theory looks too convincing to its proponents​ … He becomes​ the prisoner of his own logical model and is rendered incapable​ of seeing reality from any other standpoint …" Mistaking a map for the territory.  Classic error.  Virtually everyone makes it by mistaking their map...

Read More »