Brad:[snip]
> But the modern person who believes objects really
> do move in straight lines forever, just like the modern
> person who beleves in perfect competition, has a
> grossly distorted view of their environment.
You can't "believe" in perfect competition, all you can do is understand it as the ideal state of the market given a number of assumptions.
OK. I was speaking loosely. I meant: But the modern person who acts as if objects really do move in straight lines forever, just like the modern person who acts as if perfect competition was how economic actors actually behave in their society, has a grossly distorted view of their environment.
I was "eliding" the relation between belief and action (or, as it is scientifically called these days: "behavior").
I think this may have some connection to what I believe is a deep structural aspect of human existence: that structures which at one level are descripive and taxonomic, at another level become normative and voluntative. Example: Heidegger defined human existence as "Care". There is a sense in which the torturer cares about his or her victim, else the torturer would not bother to torture them. But this is a very different kind of care from nurturance which the recipient would freely choose if given a chance to walk away from it without suffering adverse consequences.
Sorry for the imprecision. Conversation is iterative....
Your from the town where former US President Clinton has a home (how often he stays there I don't know)....
\brad mcormick
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