Please note that the theory isn't new, simply the Cornell study is.
'Cognitive sciences' are a cross-disciplinary mess, and not even a
very enlightening mess.
The reason why a computer model was used as that they have
consistently tried to use their understanding of how a computer works
to model
About 25 years ago I was told by my university physics professor that,
for sure, commercial energy production from fusion was less than 25
years off.
Meanwhile cold fusion research societies also soldier on!
If we are up against the wall and production has peaked or about
peaked or will
I'm wondering if the cold war actually transformed anything. And is
there really much more to say on the topic after Lakatos, Feyerabend,
but also the post-structuralists?
What does this mean?
I think the book has a far too ambitious title? The intellectual
foundation of the Cold War could be
PiagetThe second reason is found in Godel's theorem. It is the fact
that
there are limits to formalisation. Any consistent system sufficiently
rich to contain elementary arithmetic cannot prove its own
consistency. So the following questions arise: logic is a
formalisation, an
A. ManiI was not speaking of Piaget, but the concept of 'logical
consistency' used and the related parts. You wrote it and R.Dumain
concurred apparently. Obviously it is relevant.
But we were discussing Piaget (but also Godel a bit) in the context of
philosophy of psychology and philosophy of
A few follow-ups for C. Brown and A. Mani
1. Mostly for C. Brown. I understand the term Robisonade better now.
However, isn't it a problem that ALL psychology would be guilty of
this, including developmental psychology. At least Piaget's take on
developmental psychology holds for social reality
From: Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are a number of questions balled together. While I think that the
competence/performance distinction as originally conceived forestalled
working out the actual relation between the two (perhaps premature at the
time) and thus equated psychology
The resistance movement led by Arab nationalist and Shia cleric al
Sadr is now ready to head a post-Occupation Iraq in accord with the
Sunni resistance, and the Sadrists and their Sunni allies will not
stand for a permanent occupation or a split-up Iraq. So US and
Occupation talk of a 'drawdown'
Coming late to the debate, but a couple things:
1. I notice how Imus did not really get in trouble with the media
execs--who can typically ignore people like Sharpton when they want
to, simply by cutting off his airtime on their networks and
shows--until Imus stopped being a Bush supporter. Imus
A bit more about film, which has such an obvious influence on the way
people think about organized crime. I'm not sure exactly why or how I
can condemn Goodfellas, since it clearly is of that genre that is
supposed to deromanticize --and de-Italianize--the mafia in film. But
it just somehow
Such as the lynchings in the South and other parts of the US, the
number of which is remarkable considering the relatively small numbers
of Italians in a limited number of places in the region (but note New
Orleans was the real center of the first mass wave of Italian
immigration to the US).
RD:
This is all very interesting, but the notion that Jews were accepted
earlier than the Italians strikes me as bizarre, unless I have mistaken
your meaning.
It's not my meaning as those are not my words. I quote things I do not
agree entirely with. In this case, I think the author of the
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/newsletter/Number44/p3_Lee.htm
NUMBER 44, SUMMER 2006
International Student Experiences of Neo-Racism and Discrimination
Jenny J. Lee
Jenny Lee is assistant professor in the Center for the Study of Higher
Education at the University of Arizona. Address: 305
The ethnicity and racial setup of WSS seems ultimately to have escaped
me. The male hero, Tony, is supposed to be of white but ethnic and
Catholic descent. He was originally supposed to be of some sort of
Italian background, the key to his tragedy being to fall for a Jewish
girl. As the story was
AN:
A final note: the original treatment of WSS called for
the gangs to be Irish and Jewish rather than Polish
Puerto Rican. Don't laugh at the idea of Jewish hoods.
Whose laughing? Not me, that is for sure. I can find accounts where
'Americans' were complaining about Jewish criminality, and
CB: Didn't I say something ?
Yeah, you are right you did. Sorry to have slighted you. I got
distracted with several university professors on a-list.
CB; Thanks for the history of Chrysler/Mitsubishi.
Yea, they are making money. What do they do that produces so much wealth
for society ,
Man, don't you check Snopes before forwarding this stuff? It had
urban legend written all over it.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.asp
Wow, that has got to be some kind of record. From cancer etiol to
urban legend and I hadn't even read it yet. There should be a new word
for
1. I enjoyed Ralph's discussion of this. More than anything it told me
my initial hunch of trying to avoid Cornel West as much as possible
was right. It is that sort of 'know nothingness' that Rorty always
smacks of that makes me run for the exits.
2. More on Feuerbach a bit later.
3. I can't
FT item excerpt:
All five defendants in one of modern Europe?s most mysterious murder
cases were acquitted on Wednesday of killing Roberto Calvi, the Italian
financier known as ?God?s banker? on account of his illicit work on
behalf of the Vatican?s bank.
The Rome court where the case had been
In response to ambitious threads, might I suggest comrades limit
themselves to very specific quoting and responses? Otherwise you end
up challenging just about anyone's reading comprehension and
discussion skills. For example, Melvin P, I really find your posts
hard to follow a lot of the times.
I found the interview interesting in its critique of the 'Black
Radical Tradition' and little else.
His take on the history of radical traditions and things like 'Hegel
on the British political economy' could also be interesting.
Regardless of my own misgivings, he is the director of a programme
PEN-L BRICOLAGE CLIP (language attributable to one Michael Perelman I
should guess):
I'm trying to make sense of the Cerberus takeover of Chrysler. The
private equity firm is getting Daimler only $1.3 billion not much of a
return for the original $36 billion that Daimler paid for Chrysler.
The
RE: A note on positivism
The positivist conception of science which holds that science aims
at the explanation and prediction of observable phenomena by
treating them as instances of universal natural laws. What Carl
Hempel referred to as the covering-law model of scientific
explanation is
WL, you are right to point out the DCB side of the story. One reason
why this is a good deal for them is that they used leveraged debt to
get Chrysler at a totally unrealistic price in the first place and now
need to get some debt off their books. Also, by keeping a 20% stake,
they might make more
I personally, believe the equity firm is basically the last form of
capital and it really changes
the rules that have governed the relationship between industrial worker and
financial industrial capital.
It seems more and more these private equities want to be holding
companies for production of
Haven't had time to follow up on all the places the discussion went
to; this is more a supplement of what JF posted about positivism. I
found it a good review from a 'philosophy of sociology' perspective.
Link and excerpt follows.
CJ
---
When Arnold Rampersad showed up to hawk his new bio of Ellison, I
learned more than I ever knew of what an obstructionist Ellison
actually was. And since looking over Rampersad's bio I took out the
library yesterday, I realize now that I totally underestimated what a
son of a bitch he actually
If I am sitting on a trillion dollars of stored away dollars--more
dollars than I can invest, so many dollars I turn to US private equity
companies to invest them--and the dollar is due for a huge
devaluation, who has a problem looming?
I suppose it could finally lead to the overdue bout of
More likely the illiberal, unoriginal spirit of Mike Keaney in answer
to Carroll Cox regarding the 'imperalism' piece you posted to this and
other lists, CB.
A few observations:
1. If you are going to quote Carrol Cox you ought to attribute that quote.
2. If you want to re-create threads from
In part, a response to Re: Things Fall Apart: China and the Decline of
US Imperialism
It's interesting to compare this review below (and presumably the book
it reviews) with the 'China and Decline of US Imperialism' piece.
Really the 'lefty liberal' stance one sees on A certain list, waiting
for
^^
CB; Yes, I saw your response. Don't have to respond to everything everybody
says, do we ? Your more expansive response gets the last say. You must be
right (smile).
Well, we know what 'right' is on the internet, don't we? If you can
get a list where about 5 people post and if they can
I didn't use the main thread title on West and Marxism.
--
In a speech over Marx's grave, Engels (1883) pointed out the
relations between Marx and Darwin in the following terms: 'Just as
Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx
JF:
I believe that in the passage quoted from Marx's letter of Lassalle,
Marx wrote not only is he the first to strike a fatal blow to
'teleology'in natural science, NOT 'theology'. In other words Marx was
noting that Darwin had shown it possible to provide causal explanations
for the apparently
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1861/letters/61_01_16.htm
Darwin's work is most important and suits my purpose in that it
provides a basis in natural science for the historical class struggle.
One does, of course, have to put up with the clumsy English style of
argument. Despite all
Thanks Charles B. I saw a similar article up at VOA, will post it
here, along with a piece from 2002 that illustrates the 'other camp'.
Given just how genetically the same all the current 'races' that make
up 'mankind' are, it seems intuitively satisfying to think that there
must be a common
The 2003 invasion's SHOCK AND AWE and a thousand Abu Graibs in follow
up was to send the message that any resistance would be futile. But
that didn't work, so it appears they started to emphasize the 'civil
war' aspects (which raises the contradiction: if Iraq is in a state of
civil war, then how
Sorry, the link to the quoted article is
http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=299issue=114
With the loss of formatting, it is hard to tell the words of the
interviewer from the Sami Ramadani, being interviewed. So read it at
the source, if you read it.
CJ
Abduljabbar al Kubaysi OF the Iraqi Resistance
Some key quotes (I hope he is wrong about Muqtada al Sadr, but it is
easy to forget how horrifically the Sadrists were attacked in 2004 and
how in order to survive, its leadership may have lost its movement).
If factions in Iran were pushing for a
Alternative Title: something lifted from the witches in Macbeth, I should guess.
People at Barrons and WSJ will no doubt cite Minsky and JK Galbraith
(the latter whom I quite like to read), but we can cite Marx and the
Marxist tradition on bubbles. But wait, at the finance journalism
sites, no
The elements that make up the left in the US (if the small sample of
political discussion lists--and really I am talking about a small
handful of people across the few lists that have more than 10
subscribers) often flagellate themselves and each other over their
lack of political and cultural
In the case of the US, I think the term might more accurately refer to
those who have enough leisure time to become auto-didacts on the many
topics that are covered under the terms 'Marx and Marxism'. That might
include people at the universities (it's a pretty big chunk of the
political economy
RD:
But what conclusions to draw without knowing what people do and how
they behave off-list? This doesn't just pertain to Marxists, but to
any political movement, and to many ostensibly non-political subjects.
I am not even sure what conclusions to draw from the ON-LIST
behaviour. For
http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Philippines/10150039.html
excerpt:
The Philippines braced yesterday for a fallout of the arrest of Jose
Maria Sison, a top communist leader as his colleagues vowed to
intensify their 39-year-old insurgency.
The National Democratic Front, the Marxist umbrella,
http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Philippines/10150039.html
excerpt:
The Philippines braced yesterday for a fallout of the arrest of Jose
Maria Sison, a top communist leader as his colleagues vowed to
intensify their 39-year-old insurgency.
The National Democratic Front, the Marxist umbrella,
RD:
[Marxism-Thaxis] More Rosa
I am so touched.
A whole page, just for me. It's the Trot version of Krazy Kat.
Maybe I should revive my Dead Trotsky Jokes after a decade. Does
your head have a hard-on or is that an ice-pick in your skull?end of quote
The weapon was supposed to have looked more
One problem is Feuerbach often gets schematized as a stepping stone
from Hegel to Marx in the 'progress' of the history of thought. It
would tempting to deal with a host of other 19th century thinkers AND
Marx. For some in European traditions, it might be interesting to
re-visit Sartre, as a
RD (in the thread this one stems from, Marx Religion) wrote:
I don't know whether Marx or Kierkegaard even knew of one another's
existence, so I don't know what is to be said on that score in terms
of the development of either.
They do get lumped together as influential post-Hegelians (though
Religion Marx
This might be on the bibliographies, I haven't checked. At any rate,
this ten page article looks to take an interesting approach. I don't
have a copy though. This is the cheapest (USD 25.00) online price I
could find for this article. But as I said, it would be tempting to
work
Correction:
At least there is the potential of having one's attention drawn to
something in the mainstream media.
I meant NOT in the mainstream media.
And a footnote on my footnote: I think of what is the 'logic' of
scientific inquiry in the 'soft' areas I have worked in (applied
linguistics,
AN wrote this I am not sure about what is wrong with staying close
to the intuitive judgments of science.
in response to this:
CJPopper never really moved that far away from intuitive judgements
about what scientists might actually do and believe.
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Intuitive
I pretty much agree with what you wrote there Ralph about Philosophy
of Science. I think that many would agree that the weakest part of
Popper's impact on philosophy of science stems from the attacks on
Marxism and Freudian psycho-analysis as 'pseudo-scientific'. For one
thing the same sort of
RE: Thugs know thugs; lumpens as wanna be capitalists
Ian Curtis
The lead singer of Joy Divison - who is currently depicted in Anton
Corbijn's biopic Control - helped Margaret Thatcher into power by
voting Conservative in 1979, reportedly as a protest against the
Labour government of James
His work was interesting in the early 1970s, when the Nixon admin. did
so much unilaterally on trade and monetary policies while the US
superpower's militarism looked about to be clipped.
But his thoughts have advanced little and he fails to analyze the hard
power the US asserts over both its
MMC, once in the clutch of Daimler-Chrysler and then 'private equity'
interests (from the US and in Japan, though these obviously overlap)
is back in the Mitsubishi keiretsu of related companies and
financiers. It just reported healthy profits. It would be interesting
to compare MMC with Chrysler.
Uh, before we go off still yet further into the ether of 'pro-labor'
rhetoric--much of it reading like Democratic Party press
releases--let's just remind ourselves why Ford, Chrysler, and GM
exist. They are run by management to make profits for shareholders
(with management and shareholding often
Of course if you have doubts about the existence of God, you do have
to wonder how God could speak to politicians like Romney and Huckabee.
The problem with asserting something like this in some imagined
tradition of American secularism is it ignores the real American
religion driving American
It's an excellent article. I was able to download it for free in .pdf
at the site that is linked. Was that some quirk or is the journal
available for free right now?
I have put it into my handheld for future reading on the train.
The problem with the approach in terms of readership is that most
You might figure an Iraqi communist raised in an Islamic tradition had
one of the more eloquent and poetic messages about Christ for the world.
CJ
https://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/1975/5-sayyab-messiah.html
The Messiah After the Crucifixion
by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
translated from the
I wouldn't buy Eagleton's new book--there are so many more interesting
items out there on the topic, but I would side with him over M. Amis
and C. Hitchens. Also, you don't often find anything good to read at
the Observer anymore, so I thought I would point this out, in follow
up to the earlier
RD
Jusding from this article alone, Eageleton is as much as asshole as
the other two. I never thought much of him, but now that he's having
a major attack of Catholicism and thirdworldism in his dotage, he's
really insufferable.
He does seem like a character out of a David Lodge novel,
RD
Jusding from this article alone, Eageleton is as much as asshole as
the other two. I never thought much of him, but now that he's having
a major attack of Catholicism and thirdworldism in his dotage, he's
really insufferable.
Oops, messed up with the title again. And I vowed not to
For one thing, some rich people born rich think they have some sort of
world historic role in living. She said she would think about letting
the US bomb Pakistan to get at al Qaeda and Taliban. I guess some
there are saying, well, her and the US-backed horse she rode in on,
too.
The feeling I get
It seems to have the same US holy warriors' revenge plot as the
Fallujah campaign.
This is the third-largest city in Iraq and if the US military and its
Iraqi cronies 'do the city' the way they have all of Anbar (and the
British did Basra) another third of Iraq will look like Gaza.
Which
It might help blacks and women to see what most white men (including
multi-syllabic ethnic types) already know: most of us will never get
to run for president--or any public office in the US.
I'm sure Obama and Clinton, when they are elected president (to use
their phrasing), will discuss the
Just what the occupation needs--more firepower and a grinding campaign!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080202/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
U.S. commanders in northern Iraq have said the battle to oust
al-Qaida in Iraq from its last urban stronghold will not be a swift
strike as al-Maliki suggested, but
Why did the white media and white money
build him up as the Great Black Hope?
CB: Indeed. Why ?
A while back Louis Proyect talked fatuously about how Kucinich was the
'stalking horse' on the war issue. How wrong could you get. Kucinich
and Gravel are totally outside the mainstream, even the
The scarcity scaremongers of A-list (really could any of them read a 3
page article from a financier obscurantist?) are posting links to HCKL
articles from Asia Times (a publication of questionable quality or at
least variable quality).
Henry is calling for hyperinflation. I say stagflation,
I would say the success of McCain and Obama point to the alternative theory:
the ruling class is trying very hard to avoid a crisis. The people who are
going line up to back McCain want, seriously, a trillion dollars spent every
year on the military. Obama hasn't explained any at all what he would
RD:
I agree with CeJ that a crisis is a-brewing,
whoever wins the nomination and general
election. That doesn't mean I don't support
voting for the lesser of evils, but I think we
are in big trouble. I would rather have seen
Edwards get the nomination and save this BS
affirmative action
CB: Actually , if you read his _Dreams from my Father_, he's a left,
political activist in background and training, seemingly posing as a
centrist Democrat.
Also, his mother married an Indonesian as her second husband, and O was
in Indonesia in the immediate aftermath of the slaughter
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than Re: Contents of Marxism-Thaxis digest...
Today's Topics:
1. Democratic meltdown looming (Charles Brown)
2. Zinn on Obama? (Charles Brown)
The bankruptcy of the Democratic Party is not
exactly a
^^^
CB: My observation is that most political activists in the US are not
phony.
Well, my observation is that they are American, aren't they? I have
always wondered how one gets that status. How does one convince at
least one other person that they are authentically an ACTIVIST?
Are
CB: A loss of confidence from American allies in the American world
system is a good thing , right ?
Was loss of faith in God a good thing if you were a minister? Look at
how the RCC and the pope handle it.
Are you asking, Do I (or others) think or wish it were a good thing?
I always hope for
CB: The pope lost his faith ?
Obviously CB I was referring to sophisticated people like yourself.
CB: You posed it as a hypothetical for the near future. Do you think it
would be a good thing if in the near future America's allies lost
confidence in the American world system ?
It
There is one thing you are quite wrong about: though Obama is a
consummate opportunist and little more, it makes a big difference who
gets elected in November, especially for Americans.
I don't think I ever said specifically that it won't make a
difference. But my point was the Demoncrats
CB just posted a link to a graphic that visualizes what I'm referring
to in my title. Here is the AP article that got some play on the web.
I excerpt it only.
The impact on young men, especially young black men is , well, the
word 'unbelievable' is an injustice. It is also disproportionate
Some of this is sociological nonsense got from wikipedia--only an
academic would come up with a 25% rule for mixed racial status, as if
that was verifiable for most people, like AKC registered dogs or
something.
However, it does point out the difference in perception across those
who consider
Bringing us back again to the ideological bubble that attacks so many
Americans at this time of the political cycle: HISTORY IS NOT MADE BY
GREAT MEN.
Case in point, Gov. Spitzer, the so-called Sheriff of Wall Street. The
ideological delusion here was that one man and his posse of attorneys
could
What if the US military and Iran squared off in a 'limited conflict'?
I believe that the IDF missile corvette (which was on a fire mission
against the Beirut airport in the Summer 2006 war) that Hezbollah hit
and heavily damaged, was hit with a really low-tech modified c-701,
not the c-802 that a
What exactly was all that? A review of a review that then turned into
a critique of modern society?
Does anyone remember the clever Coen Bros film, Barton Fink. Perhaps
they peaked with that film, if only they had then embraced it as a
statement about their own 'art'.
Barton Fink (John Turturro)
I believe the terms 'post-modernist' and 'post-structuralist' can be
used to refer fairly specifically in the history of design and
architecture. 'Post-' is a pre-fix that means 'coming after'.
Extending that to other areas, post-structuralism in the case of
social and formal sciences means
And what, pray tell, are Hegel's answers?
I wouldn't touch that with Hideki Matsui's heavy-barreled baseball bat.
Except to say that there was a time, back in the 19th century, when to
be an intellectual meant to agree or disagree about what Hegel's
answers were. I don't think it is too much of
RE: the insights of postmodernism
I noticed my dictionary of philosophy, which I just consulted to see
what an academic philosopher does to differentiate postmodernism from
post-structuralism from deconstruction, spells PM without a hyphen but
uses one for PS.
For the academic whose publication
However, if you look at the early figures in the so-called
Anglo-Analytic tradition, you see they were Hegelians, left Hegelians,
right-wing state Hegelians, proto-fascists or anti-Hegelians
(including many of the pre-cursors of post-modernist philosophies,
such as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard).
Well, Zizek does tend to draw such reactions as RD's. I think it is
worth reading his articles occasionally. That is the beauty of the
internet, I only pay for it with eyestrain and connection times.
I think there is the issues of
1. People brought up in the philosophical traditions of
1. People brought up in the philosophical traditions of anglo-analytic
and American pragmatism react strongly against the
Hegel-Idealism-Phenomenology-Existentalism-Poststructuralism lines of
philosophical descent.
The term 'anglo-analytic' was supposed to modify something, but right
now
So getting back to what I think is the meat of the discussion with PW and CB,
PW wrote:
Have people on this list got the point about postmodernism not being
a policy (which can easily be reversed) but rather being a deeply
ingrained condition with many supports in material
reality?
Perhaps
http://www.iep.utm.edu/l/Lyotard.htm#SH2a
excerpt:
b. The Postmodern Condition
Lyotard soon abandoned the term 'paganism' in favour of
'postmodernism.' He presents his initial and highly influential
formulation of postmodernism in The Postmodern Condition: A Report on
Knowledge, commissioned by
The philosophers, thinkers, and social scientists working
philosophically under the label of the 'continental tradition' often
move across narrow specialities and approaches. They are even willing
to cross the anglo-analytic vs. continental line (such as Lyotard
drawing on concepts from
RD:
You're writing gibberish. More below.
This is now how serious discussion is done Ralph. If you don't want to
try, then just don't write anything.
Marx is not an objective idealist. Have you got
your finger up your ass?
I was talking about young Marx and the tradition he came out
Lyotard might be one of the first structuralist postmodernists (and
Marxist, and not just an academic or imaginary one, but one with real
organization experience ). Popper, an Austrian identified with the
Anglo-Analytic tradition, could be considered one of the first of that
tradition's
http://www.marxists.org/archive/ilyenkov/works/essays/essay7.htm
The sole path to a real, critical mastering of Hegel's conception of
thought lay through a revolutionary, critical attitude to the world of
alienation, i.e. to the world of commodity-capitalist relations. Only
along that path could
2. Lyotard on Popper
http://www.arasite.org/lyotard1.
Oops. What I should have said was Lyotard on phil. of science after
Popper, and it is not the primary source but rather a discussion of
Lyotard.
What I had in mind for 2 was actually:
The ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected by the
human mind, and translated into forms of thought. --Karl Marx, Das
Kapital, Vol. 1.
It is interesting to read Lenin on Hegel, followed by Lukacs, Korsch
and then Althusser. Whereas Lenin said something like the way to
understand
A multiply ironic response.
I'm not so naive about continental philosophy as this asshole CeJ
thinks. But just as what's peddled in the Anglo-American sphere is a
selective culling of the resources actually available, and is selected
specifically in the service of an irrationalism
Iyenkov on Hegel
CeJ
Engels and later Lenin (and Lenin had real revolutionary practices to
get a grip on) end up with their materialist drawers tied into
idealist knots dealing with Marx's conception of 'materialism'
vis-a-vis the physical sciences.
CB: If you are more specific we can
Popper's work on
scientific methods and induction is formidable and some of the most
important after Hume, Mills and Peirce.
I meant 'J.S. Mill' here, but I was reading a wikipedia article on
Hayley Mills at the time.
CJ
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Closing up a real problem with reference in my discourse:
These two could be called 'Hegelian' Marxists, or Marxists who stress
the importance of Hegel in Marx and Marxism, not just in young Marx,
but in Marx-Engels' subsequent 'return' to Hegel.
'These two' should refer to 'Lukacs and Korsch'.
RD:
You certainly cannot understand Marx without understanding the Young
Hegelian milieu. The Second International Marxists never understood it
and Engels' pamphlet on Feuerbach did not provide sufficient
information and perspective.
Agreed, but one 'popular' view that we often are asked to
^^^
CB: Human thought does represent objective reality.
By the way, Marx had this reflectionist theory too. Not just Lenin.
^^^
That is why I quoted Marx's statement of it. That doesn't absolve Marx
the philosopher of having to address causality or the nature of mind
or social structure
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