On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem is that it is not a theory at all; it is a mere daydream > about a world in which there is no material basis for fighting and > therefore all parties will observe silly rules aboau how to go aboaut > kiloign each other. Hence there can be neither examples nor > counter-examples for the non-theory.
I think Shane Mage makes some pertinent criticisms and I do not find Whitman's thesis convincing either. But I still find it interesting and I think it deserves better than oversimplifying it to the point of absurdity as "a mere daydream about a world in which there is no material basis for fighting". -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
