Glen E. P. Ropella wrote: > (*) Simulations are concrete objects and, hence, are fundamentally > distinct from programs and full models, which are forms of rhetoric. A > simulation is not a model in and of itself. The simulation (the concrete thing that is apparently detached from human rhetoric) can serve as a dazzling bluff to say that model assumptions have been scrutinized when they may not have been. It's potentially a deeper sort of deception or delusion. I'm not saying there is a technical or conceptual problem here with ABM, just that it is a technique that is perhaps more obvious how to abuse than others.
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