When a precise, narrowly focused technical idea becomes metaphor and sprawls globally, its credibility must be earned afresh locally by means of specific evidence demonstrating the relevance and explanatory power of the idea in its new application.
Edward Tufte, “Beautiful Evidence”
Evolution
Relativity
Foundational assumptions of standard economics
...what else?
Bayes’ theorem
Status
Computation
Utility
Optimisation
Quantum physics
Edward Tufte, “Beautiful Evidence”
Evolution
Relativity
Foundational assumptions of standard economics
...what else?
Bayes’ theorem
Status
Computation
Utility
Optimisation
Quantum physics