[lbo-talk] Delong puts the smackdown on ol' Whiskers

[Autoplectic]

On Apr 6, 2005 7:38 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> Autoplectic wrote:
> >
> > > The mere fact that there is no resolution after 125+ years shows there
> > something wrong with trying to infer or deduce [take your pick, I
> > don't care] a normative wrong from a bunch of algebra and calculus no
> > matter how intricate the algorithms.
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> "There is here, therefore, an antinomy, right against right, both
> equally bearing the seal of the law of exchanges. Between equal rights,
> force decides." Cap. I, Ch. X.
> 
> Carrol

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Uh, we were discussing and debating the status of various propositions
and hypotheses within a theory, not the conflict laden social system
that those propositions claim to describe-represent-explain. His claim
above begs the question as regards his own theory, unless you want to
play the underdetermination of theory by evidence game, in which case
the use of the term exploitation is reduced to rhetoric which
theorists and others are entirely free to ignore; i.e. KM isn't so
much right or wrong as...........ignorable.