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}Agree - it takes long term observation to observe the habits and
patterns of interaction within a society.
I examine it via a number of areas: First - the ecological biome
[soil type, water type, nature of plants and animals, climate]. Then,
the population size, which is a key hard statistic.. And then...and
one can almost 'guess' the result...the economic mode, which will, in
a pre-industrial society, be directly connected to the ecology and the
population size. Then, the political mode, or 'who is authorized to
make the laws'. ..which will always be: whoever creates
wealth/food/sustenance in the society. This is the basic set and
aren't conceptual but can be deduced from hard data. The ideologies,
the belief system and education/religion/etc..are rooted in the basic
set.
As a cat-person, I agree - one can figure out if the cat has been a
pet..or, rather, if the cat has at some time, managed to control some
hapless human to serve its cat-needs.
Edwina
On Tue 10/04/18 4:33 PM , John F Sowa [email protected] sent:
On 4/10/2018 4:02 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:
> As for societies, I view them as compositions of matter [made up
of
> ecological biomes and population size and economic mode], held
together
> by conceptual Thirdness.
Yes. But a society is like a pet cat. You can recognize the people
or the cat, but what makes a cat into a pet or people into a society
is not directly observable.
But it's possible to infer that role by long-term investigation.
By watching how the cat behaves, you can tell that it has been
and possibly still is a pet.
For cats, a direct question isn't helpful. For people, you can
also ask them "Are you here for some sort of event?"
Summary: role types cannot be distinguished by a snapshot,
but they can be detected by a combination of observations
and inferences.
John
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