>>> sokol at jhu.edu 12/07/00 11:46AM >>>
At 09:34 AM 12/7/00 -0500, Charles wrote:
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>More often than not, people (including many Marxists) see contingency
>where they should see necessity and see necessity where they should
>see contingency. Ideological inversion redux.
Necessity is but a product of human mind, the realm of logic not the world.
More precise, it is the product of the limitation of the human mind to experience or grasp the counterfactual. The world is but a contingency, devoid of any reason, logic, necessity, order, divinity and kindred metaphysical abstractions. The only claims that matter are those that can be backed by material force, while those backed merely by logic are but cursing at the passing locomotive. That is what makes capitalism superior to any religion, divine or mundane.
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CB: Above is Yoshie.
Necessity is , for example, the law of gravity exhibiting itself periodically when the roof falls in.