Re: <nettime> Fwd: Re: Forms of decisionism

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

Maybe I'm making mistake assuming that "theory" here means 
normative/scientific theory, something that strives to provide 
predictions in sustainable and repeatable fashion. Theories that predict 
past are useless, and what someone feels the future should be and steps 
to achieve that is, in my mind, ideology and not a theory.

There is a big difference: a theory can be wrong, ideology cannot. The 
prevailing slippery allusions to the scientific meaning of theory seem 
intentional.


On 7/19/16, 21:45, Alex Foti wrote:

> well this is about falsificationism in social theory - and it pretty
> much applies to any theory in social science - be it modernization
> functionalism underdevelopment etc

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