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		Shorel on Sept 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Economics Has a Math Problem Except when the new knowledge is in the form of pure mathematical research. Then, some decades later someone finds the practical application, and the data that matches the model.

sklogic on Sept 2, 2015 [–]

No, this is not a new knowledge, and not a new information (as defined by the algorithmic information theory), it's a non-falsifiable piece of, well, probably art. For this very reason mathematics is not considered a science.

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