Doyle Lets take logical consistency in terms of software. Large software programs are for all intents and purposes unknowable. Logical consistency is supposed to be used to build software, but human beings can't really produce that kind of labor process on that scale. The problem has to do with human brain limitations. I'm not talking about the traditional division of labor in academic regimes taking advantage of skills built up in scholars.
Real programmers have real problems making things work in large software projects.
You indicate that, Jim, The problem is that many if not most economists fall for the fallacy of argument by analogy, ignoring the ways in which the world differs from the model. They think that by talking about a model, they're talking about the empirical world. Worse, many economists want to remake the world to force it to fit into the Procrustean Bed formed by the model. You point at modeling as a problem. Linked to human thought in what way.