“Truth and falsehood are arbitrary terms....The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.” -- some advisor to Woodrow Wilson smithsonianmag.com/history/journa
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An article on economics can be a piece of "fiction", but coherent & compelling fiction.
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He's not wrong. That's the whole point of intersubjective ideas.
This is just one of the ways that the uber-rationalists have contributed negative value to parts of the social sciences, by mocking this sort of mindset rather than understanding it.



