THE ARGUMENT FOR NORMATIVE DECIDABILITY IN NON-OPERATIONAL LANGUAGE (CD: for tho

THE ARGUMENT FOR NORMATIVE DECIDABILITY IN NON-OPERATIONAL LANGUAGE

(CD: for those that cannot make the leap to operationalism, joel does a wonderful job of using traditional language to make the point.)

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by Joel Davis

A social structure emerges from the conceptual structures held by the participants which have relevance to interpersonal interaction.

These conceptual structures emerge from conceptual valuation, and conceptual valuation functions via relative conceptual hierarchies of valuation.

These hierarchies of values then become the criteria from which a social structure formulates its interpersonal hierarchies.

To peacefully preserve a particular social structure, a society must have at least a significant convergence (or ideally, a consensus) between its participants in regard to conceptual valuation relevant to interpersonal interaction.

Without this convergence, participants in the social structure who hold competing conceptual hierarchies will support competing interpersonal hierarchies, rendering conceptual divergence doomed to social chaos and violence only resolvable via the tyrannical imposition of a victorious conceptual structure.

In the West, we addressed this problem with markets via the superordinate metavaluation of the twin concepts of rationality and honor during antiquity and reason and liberty during modernity.

However, rationalism and honor were defeated by Catholic (and Islamic) conceptual tyranny, and now reason and liberty are on the brink of complete disintegration via a regression to chaotic conceptual divergence as a result of the counter-enlightenment.

The only wall that can truly protect our society is the revived convergent, superordinate metavaluations of reason and liberty. Physical walls to keep out those who challenge their superordinance would then be merely a natural consequence.