is there a pithy law & economics term for “the law as various observers believe it to be” vs what it actually is in practice?
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If you collect hundreds of hours of videotape of ordinary people having picnics and transcribe them meticulously and watch them a million times, you come up with a very different story, which may have something to do with reality.
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Recording, transcribing, and theorizing about real (generally tedious) human conversations is what pragmatist linguistics actually do in real life. I didn't go to MIT with its Chomskian idealism. I went to UCSB which is full of pragmatists ;-) http://goo.gl/dbR22c
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