Chapters from the Book Standards for Behavioral Commitments: Philosophy of Humanism, and more!
1.Mating and Birthing The function of mating and birthing is obviously reproduction, sustaining the existence of an organism’s species and passing along traits that made reproduction possible. It is easy to see the kind of advantage reproduction enables: a nonreplicating bacterium can be outnumbered one to a million in less than a day. The eukaryotic … Continue reading Behavioral Functions
Over the course of human history, intrastructural reasoning has blended with language for the sake of coordinating social groups around complex concepts of causality and related practices. Perceptions and conceptualizings of structure, dimension and duration enabling humans to define the world participated in molding phonetics such that, although language did not wholly change form in reply, being still a sequential cadence … Continue reading Qualitative Inferential Reasoning
a. The functional arbitrariness of language-influenced thought Despite a vast variety of circumstances in which humans apply reasoning, the basics are the same, an intrastructural connectivity provisional of extrapolative and interpolative inferencing, mapped onto the causality observed and inspected as we perceive and conceive. Psychical blending of the unconscious with perceptual, conceptual and inferential association as well as intentionality, reflection and … Continue reading The Conjoined Evolution of Conception, Language and Sociality
By the close of the 19th century, European institutionalizing of historical analysis was well underway. Anthropological study was exploring the world, sending out expeditions to research foreign lands, mastering foreign languages, authoring increasingly competent translations into Caucasian tongues, getting a better sense for the way behavior and belief vary by culture, excavating important sites in … Continue reading The Transition to a Philosophy of Science and Technology
One of the most apparent aspects of modern theory is its intimate relationship with language. Settings where theories are taught, applied and analyzed often feature a barrage of verbiage, and this becomes truer the farther individuals advance professionally. It seems language is a condition of the possibility for highly developed theoretical frameworks: spoken and written … Continue reading The Synergistic Function and Coevolution of Language and Theoretical Thought
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