″...go ahead and tell me your causal model and I’ll probably cook up an obvious example to satisfy myself in the first minute of your explanation.”
I think maybe we agree… verbosely… with different emphasis? :-)
At least I think we could communicate reasonably well. I feel like the danger, if any, would arise from playing example ping pong and having the serious disagreements arise from how we “cook (instantiate?)” examples into models, and “uncook (generalize?)” models into examples.
When people just say what their model “actually is”, I really like it.
When people only point to instances I feel like the instances often under-determine the hypothetical underlying idea and leave me still confused as to how to generate novel instances for myself that they would assent to as predictions consistent with the idea that they “meant to mean” with the instances.
I think maybe we agree… verbosely… with different emphasis? :-)
At least I think we could communicate reasonably well. I feel like the danger, if any, would arise from playing example ping pong and having the serious disagreements arise from how we “cook (instantiate?)” examples into models, and “uncook (generalize?)” models into examples.
When people just say what their model “actually is”, I really like it.
When people only point to instances I feel like the instances often under-determine the hypothetical underlying idea and leave me still confused as to how to generate novel instances for myself that they would assent to as predictions consistent with the idea that they “meant to mean” with the instances.
Maybe: intensive theories > extensive theories?
Indeed