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    Metaphors and social science

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    Date
    1999-1-1
    Author
    Macpherson, Eric D.
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    Abstract
    The social sciences have a considerable history of attempts to apply models and theories from the physical sciences. All such attempts have failed, primarily because social scientists have commonly not distinguished between applications and possibly useful metaphors.Attempts to apply non-linear mathematics to social concerns will similarly fail. There are now no non-trivial applications, and there are unlikely ever to be.But the phenomenon of reifying models and theories from elsewhere has long standing status in the social sciences, and DDNS can play an important role in monitoring those attempts.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23792
    DOI
    10.1155/S1026022699000096
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