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Juridical Coherence: 18.0 Capitalism and socialism express conflicting reciprocity norms: A reinterpretation of Marx’s theory of capitalist decline

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Theory on framework issues. Saturday, December 1, 2012. 180 Capitalism and socialism express conflicting reciprocity norms: A reinterpretation of Marx’s theory of capitalist decline. Marx’s central argument is counterintuitive but simple. Value. Consists of labor hours embodied in products. Employers ( capitalists. Organic composition of capital. 8212;as proportionately more value is created through capital goods—rate of profit must fall, since it is based on exploiting. Profit from a series of “fa...

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Juridical Coherence: 22.0. The concept of belief and the nature of abstraction: A social propensity account

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Theory on framework issues. Sunday, March 30, 2014. 220 The concept of belief and the nature of abstraction: A social propensity account. Puzzling to philosophy, is part of psychology’s conceptual framework. The present essay provides a straightforward yet novel theory of the explanatory and predictive value of describing agents as having beliefs. The theory attributes full-fledged beliefs exclusively to agents with linguistic capacities, but it does so as an empirical matter rather than. To take p into ...

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Juridical Coherence: 14.1.1. Utilitarianism twice fails

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Theory on framework issues. Monday, February 18, 2013. 1411 Utilitarianism twice fails. It seems almost self-evident that (barring foreign subjugation) a government will care about the wants of (some of) its citizens and nothing else: no other object of concern is plausible. If governments concern themselves with the wants of noncitizens, that will be only because citizens desire their well-being. The now platitudinous insight that the only possible. Weighting their welfare equally. First, I’ll con...

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Juridical Coherence: 25.0. Authorized police prevarication as a clue to the nature of the state

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Theory on framework issues. Wednesday, November 12, 2014. 250 Authorized police prevarication as a clue to the nature of the state. The drive to ground state authority in raw power by shock and awe is accentuated in an economically polarized and culturally divided society, where the police can no longer even pretend to serve a unified public. Right to lie to courts. On what subjects do the police—not just with impunity but approbation—lie? Servants don’t claim the right. The officerly habit of lying incr...

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Juridical Coherence: 11.4 Explaining deliberation. THE CONFUSION BETWEEN BELIEF AND OPINION AND THE NATURES OF FANATICISM AND PHILISTINISM. Part 5.

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Theory on framework issues. Wednesday, April 6, 2011. 114 Explaining deliberation. THE CONFUSION BETWEEN BELIEF AND OPINION AND THE NATURES OF FANATICISM AND PHILISTINISM. Part 5. I The one-factor belief theorist's predicament. The key to understanding this account of epistemic attitude is what it denies: that the same attitude — belief — governs deliberation as well as action. The film. Recall that the belief/opinion theory accounts for the anomaly by denying that the same epistemic attitude ordinarily ...

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Juridical Coherence: 11.2 The distinct functions of belief and opinion THE CONFUSION BETWEEN BELIEF AND OPINION AND THE NATURES OF FANATICISM AND PHILISTINISM. PART 3.

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Theory on framework issues. Monday, March 7, 2011. 112 The distinct functions of belief and opinion THE CONFUSION BETWEEN BELIEF AND OPINION AND THE NATURES OF FANATICISM AND PHILISTINISM. PART 3. Belief, relying on the opinions of epistemic superiors and equals. Not the belief-constituting average opinion of epistemic equals. The other eleven jurors, who decidedly were not paragons of rationality, adopted group-average opinion to form, irrationally, a bloc against the dissenter. While beliefs rather tha...

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Juridical Coherence: 21.0. The dismal employment picture: A social-status-theory explanation

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Theory on framework issues. Saturday, August 10, 2013. 210 The dismal employment picture: A social-status-theory explanation. Which has influenced my thinking regarding social status, contains numerous novel applications of social-status theory.) This explanation is independent of my. That the tendency of rate of profit to decline is a source of economic decline. The point of this essay is to propose that social-status theory is relevant to macroeconomics. Aggregate demand and the industrial revolution.

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Juridical Coherence: 15.1 Utopianism, Demagogism, and Managerialism are left, right, and center: Patterns of opportunism and rigidity

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Theory on framework issues. Wednesday, May 23, 2012. 151 Utopianism, Demagogism, and Managerialism are left, right, and center: Patterns of opportunism and rigidity. In separate window.). Generates a taxonomy that amplifies rather than supersedes the left–right political spectrum. Managerialism. Corresponds to the broad center, Demagogism. The extreme right, and Utopianism. The far left. Monomaniacalism. Is easy to explain, in that radical change is far. Command narrower support because an ideology recom...

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Juridical Coherence: 19.1. The meaning of “existence”: Lessons from infinity

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Theory on framework issues. Monday, January 21, 2013. 191 The meaning of “existence”: Lessons from infinity. Based on 19.0. Can infinite quantities exist? The topic is the concept. Of existence, not its fact. Why there's something rather than nothing—. When essay 19.0 asked “Can infinite quantities exist? This concept is uniquely. In one argument against actual infinity. I proposed as conceptually possible that separate things might be distinguishable only concerning their being separate things. If w...