Arrow’s impossibility theorem sounds interesting. Worthy of debate (have you debated it before?). But stating it as an argument for despotism seems misleading.
Interestingly in the neoPlatonic tradition within Christianity God most often is a nothing. That is the not-a-thing. The ousia of God is invoked with these nothing paradoxes especially in the mystic tradition. Of course there then becomes the debate over the more than real vs. less than real and so forth.
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ReplyDeleteArrow’s impossibility theorem sounds interesting. Worthy of debate (have you debated it before?). But stating it as an argument for despotism seems misleading.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly in the neoPlatonic tradition within Christianity God most often is a nothing. That is the not-a-thing. The ousia of God is invoked with these nothing paradoxes especially in the mystic tradition. Of course there then becomes the debate over the more than real vs. less than real and so forth.
ReplyDeleteheh heh i thought it was money, oops! ;-)
ReplyDeleteWhose textbook are you using?
ReplyDeleteAnderson's latest.
ReplyDeleteThough that'd be "was" using, as of 4:30pm this afternoon :)