From: "Paul Marsden" <PaulMarsden@msn.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: "Retarding the Progress" - A Call for Specifics
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:25:24 -0000
Aaron said
>I also suspect that at least some behaviorists can seriously consider the
>possibility that a non-Hutterite Marxist influences (e.g., conditions) a
>Hutterite non-Marxist to become a non-Hutterite non-Marxist. Now writing
>all those details out longhand becomes more cumbersome, hence the
>shorthand: ~H*M + H*~M --> ~H*M + ~H*~M.
Ummm, just how does one define and identify a Marxist? It is certainly not
by measuring directly a unit of Marxist belief (probably red in colour) in
their head. No, belief is inferred by measuring behaviour of some kind,
sometimes verbal behaviour, that is held to be contiguous with that belief.
(As you probably know from even cursory inspection of social science belief
is a very poor indicator or predictor of behaviour, but that is another
problem).
Paul Marsden
Graduate Research Centre in the Social Sciences
University of Sussex
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