09.21.08
Using theories as ideologies: the Oedipus paradox
Note from the previous post the way that evolutionary/Darwinian theory is being discussed, NOT BY EXTERNAL OBSERVERS ABOUT THE PAST, but agents in present ABOUT THE FUTURE application of the theory, a clear violation of theoretical procedure. The ‘observer’ is in reality an economic agent discussing how a presumed claim about the past should influence our decisions about the future. This incoherence in the use of evolutionary theory is discussed in World History And The Eonic Effect, which demands a new kind of theory.
The problem is called the Oedipus Paradox and is discussed here: