Seminal Papers in Complexity

Posted by Michael Agar on
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Nope, that's not at all what I meant. The centuries old qualitative/
quantitative issue, needs revisiting now, but that's a course of  
study, not an email.

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> When I hear "nonlinear effects of mental health policy" I immediately
> think of some variable (eg some measure of social good) that  
> depends on
> some other variable (eg money) in a nonlinear way (eg social good
> varies as the square of money spent).
>
> Whilst you may be using the term a little imprecisely by not being
> quantitative, it is still a perfectly valid use of the term.  
> However, if
> the above paragraph is not what you mean, then you've immediately lost
> one of your readers.
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