Ahhh, Mill style deductivism aye. I would note that these “internally found” parameters are just given facts – you can’t reduce down past them. Where possible, it would be nice to use psychological models to build these – and that is one area of research no?

But you would want to come up with a reason why you pick that parameter – and that causal reasoning will be based on another reductionist model right?

Without reductionism you’re not really making “modls” right 😉

“Thus, in explaining to a stranger, for example, why he holds Sociogs or the Polsci in such low regard, the Econ will say that “they do not make modls” and leave it at that”.

Pure awesome.

Thanks – I couldn’t remember the title, and searching for anthropology and economics didn’t get me anywhere!