论文信息 - Should critical realism really be critical for OR? A comment on Mingers (2000): the contribution of critical realism as an underpinning philosophy for OR/MS and systems

Should critical realism really be critical for OR? A comment on Mingers (2000): the contribution of critical realism as an underpinning philosophy for OR/MS and systems

Reason, an Ignis fatuus, in the Mind, Which leaving light of Nature, sense behind; Pathless and dang’rous wandering ways it takes, Through errors Fenny-Boggs, and Thorny Brakes; Whilst the misguided follower, climbs with pain, Mountains of Whimsey, heap’d in his own Brain; Stumbling from thought to thought, falls headlong down, Into doubts boundless Sea, where like to drown, Books bear him up awhile, and make him try, To swim with Bladders of Philosophy . . .

Richard J. Ormerod

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