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 > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
