Re: [Fis] TR: What is ³Agent²?

2017-10-22 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear colleagues, In my opinion, a word like "agency" (or "action") is provided with meaning within a sentence/statement which is theoretically informed. Only in a context, a word can become a concept. The common ground that is assumed in this discussion is the claim that the generation of ag

Re: [Fis] TR: What is ³Agent²?

2017-10-22 Thread Stanley N Salthe
Christophe -- Regarding: >Social institutions clearly have final causes (a long and complex list..) but associating agency and teleology to elementary particles may be problematic as it introduces final causes in a material universe. This looks close to an "intelligent design" option that we pref