The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy-but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The most valuable theories are those that explain deeply, not those limited by scale or hierarchy.
- In plain terms
- Deep explanations matter more than size or level.
- What can you take from it?
- Seek theories that provide fundamental insight.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What makes a theory ‘deep’?
- How can you test explanatory power?
Another view
Abstract; may be hard to apply without criteria.
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