[FRIAM] description - explanation - metaphor - model - and reply

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Did Epstein ever respond to your criticism?

For what little it's worth, I disagree with your lesson. Obtuse models can be very useful. In fact, there's good reason to believe you will *never* actually understand how your model works, any more than you'll ever understand how that model's referent(s) work. I may even be able to use Pierce to argue that to you. 8^)

On 1/15/20 9:23 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> The lesson is, if you
> don’t understand how your model works, you aren’t doing yourself any favors by inventing it.  This led to my war with Epstein in the pages of JSSS about the relation between explanation and prediction.  

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