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mitch <mitchs@rcnNOSPAM.com> wrote in message news:<3F7FF92D.C89763E8@rcnNOSPAM.com>...
> Jeff Rubard wrote:
> 
> > First rule of writing: it's important to work with your editor.  First
> > in a series, comments welcome.
> >
> 
> Nice piece.

Yes.  When one speaks of such things, one closes one's eyes, and an
errant curly-quote or thirty slips out.  But the left/right
distinction in politics is poorly understood by nearly all and this
can hardly be to anyone's benefit, if a liberal taste for the
extra-political is still to be granted.
 
> One of the first things I noticed when I started reading Husserl was the
> emphasis on an underlying utility he associated with logic in
> characterizing it as a normative science.  This was not part of the
> Kantian framework outlined in "Critique of Pure Reason" where judging the
> merit of a speculative investigation on the basis of utility alone was
> explicitly discouraged.

The important thing to realize is that Husserl does *not* characterize
logic as a normative science in the *Logical Investigations*; logic as
*techne* is a "founded" mode based on "pure" logic.  But thanks to
Quine's "theory of meaning-theory of reference" distinction, it is
also poorly understood that modern logic is of a Husserlian cast of
mind in this respect, rather than the "normativist" dream-Frege
promoted by some; its objects of study are well-behaved enough to be
interesting when they are not well-behaved, and ours is not to reason
why kids eventually learn to add.

> Given this, I concluded that this introduction/recognition of
> game-theoretic motivations was probably a consequence of the rise of an
> entrepreneurial class during the nineteenth century along with increasing
> national identification in political spheres.

Yes, I have a decision-theoretic/marginalist riff now available on
Usenet, too (collect all n!).

> Of course, your work has made specific claims where I simply formulated a
> vague hypothesis.  And, I am most definitely unqualified to comment on the
> specifics.  But, I found the thesis interesting nonetheless.  Good luck
> with it.

Well, hey, that's not nothing.  Thank you for your comments.