It’s always been a bit of a mystery to me why examples are so hard to generate. Once I thought my own struggle to get a handful of good examples together was good evidence my thesis was weak, but I’m less sure of that now.
Even when examples do present themselves they are never “quite right”; there are so often other factors in the outcome, beyond your simply toy model, that it would require much handwaving and disclaimer to persuade relevance.
And yet, as you say, they’re butter to argument’s bread.
It’s always been a bit of a mystery to me why examples are so hard to generate. Once I thought my own struggle to get a handful of good examples together was good evidence my thesis was weak, but I’m less sure of that now.
Even when examples do present themselves they are never “quite right”; there are so often other factors in the outcome, beyond your simply toy model, that it would require much handwaving and disclaimer to persuade relevance.
And yet, as you say, they’re butter to argument’s bread.
Yeah, I feel the exact same way.