It's been asserted you're guilty of post hoc ergo propter hoc, which
is a common claim regarding various functionalist hypotheses.

E.

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Jim d writes:
>
>> Jurriaan Bendien <[email protected]> wrote: >the structural -
>> functionalist concept of role (just like most Marxists do). <
>>
>> what is "the structural-functionalist concept of the role" and in what way
> do
>> "most" Marxists agree with this concept? Have you taken a public opinion
>> poll to see what "most" Marxists agree with?
>
> ---------
>
> I think Jim is correct here. Not very much of interest can follow the
> subject, "Most Marxists..." Any completion of that sentence is either
> trivial or nonsense or both.
>
> I am interested in seeing some further discussion of _functionalism_, since
> (a) I don't have the slightest idea what the term means and (b) I have
> several times on this list or the lbo-talk list been labeled a
> "functionalist." I would like to know more clearly what I'm being accused of
> in such cases.
>
> Carrol
>
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