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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    or this
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    my girlfriend listens to this constantly. dosent it sort of fit?
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    and last thing; the single biggest problem with postmodernists - which really has crushed their line of thinking - was kind of the same...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    btw, pretty much the same could be said about Land's theories, since he's been mentioned here couple of times, because they too are...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    you keep returning to this vertical, hierarchical, chain of being type of view, which i think is just a fallacy as far as furthering an...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    ok, but that's exactly the point - it's a self-referential claim made within marxisms own theoretical framework. So marxism, like any...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    each system observes all the others (environment) from it's own point of view based on it's own simplifying binary.
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    well it's an observation made from within sub-system of science/sociology (true/false); so, yeah, it won't have much use in, say...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    mega simplified version, because it would take a lot of effort to elucidate
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    since I already name-dropped Niklas Luhmann i can only riff on that a bit to make myself clear - when I say contingency I’m not trying...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    so all criticism of marxism or dialectical materialism or that line of thinking in general is just hidden class interests?
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    this question is cognitively meaningless., any kind of verification requires observation and you ruled it out a priori. i mean, can you...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    the whole point of his was exactly that conjunction is NOT a causation. causation as a necessary connection is a mental habit we project...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    hume's skepticism was epistemological not ontological. he was talking about how we interfere causality from constant conjunction, not...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    Why do you think contingency excludes laws of causation? it's not randomness, that's a different concept entirely.
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