Mel, DMB, A saying I often use is ...
What we say, What we do, and What we say we do (the "rationalization" that relates said belief with and done action) are three different things. (A paraphrase of Nils Brunsson and Chris Argyris work in organizational management.) DMB is right there is probably no action without belief, correlation yes, but that connection is not direct or causal. This is also a kind of "hypocrisy" ... saying and doing different things, BUT it is not necessarily a matter of deliberately (dishonestly) saying something different to "real" intent to act (though clearly it oftentimes can be) - just that the "rational" (rationality itself) is suspect. Either way the correlation is real but not directly "causal". Regards Ian On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:14 PM, ml <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > mel said: the connections between action and belief are often very tenuous, > in fact approaching correlation zero. We watch it every week and mostly > make no big thing about it. Of course the logic fallacy of "false cause" is > why these two, action and belief, are so often separate. > > dmb says:Zero correlation? Really? I think that whenever we act we are > acting on the basis of beliefs so that the correlation approaches 100%. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
