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Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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by BillSeitz
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Sep 6, 2008 2:20 pm |
a ModEl, typically based on Bottom Up Emerg Ence from the behavior of individual actors.
Glenn Reynolds on TheSims (Will Wright)
Cosma Shalizi on Simulat Ion-s, ModEl-s, and [Fore Cast]-s. It is an abuse to call every hypothesis, or theory, or mere notion, a model, just as it is an abuse to call everything from the most arbitrary detail of this year's haute couture to "linear Western rationalism" a "paradigm," or label a "system" everything in the world and a great deal more. The domain of hypotheses and theories is a great deal broader than that of models... It will be seen that hypotheses approach models, the more detailed, specific and quantitative they are. Thus Adam Smith's theory of the [Invisible Hand] is less of a model than Kenneth Arrow and [Gerard Debreu]'s "[General Equilibrium Model]" of the economy, which itself is less of a model than [Wassily Leontief]'s input-output models.
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog