From: derek gatherer (dgatherer2002@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Fri 01 Nov 2002 - 12:03:26 GMT
Bruce: Voltaire sucks. Have you ever
> actually read his work!?
Derek: No, I don't even know if the famous quotation
is real or apocryphal.
As to progress on the internal/external debate, my
stuff over the past few years has moved into tackling
the internalist stance by -
a) showing computationally that one specific
internalist hypothesis is untenable:
http://jom-emit.cfpm.org/2001/vol4/gatherer_d.html
b) showing computationally that a general internalist
theoretical plank is unlikely:
http://jom-emit.cfpm.org/2002/vol6/gatherer_d.html
c) showing how one can make deductions concerning
social contagion using purely observable data aligned
to computational models, so internalist theoretical
foundations are unnecessary:
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/5/4/5.html
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