#commensurability

[gdill52]

Democratization Problems

I suppose you might have missed out on Paul Feyerabend’s,and especially Thomas Kuhn’s Problem of Incommensurabiity. Oh, not at all.I have not looked at science or cultureor languageor even your attempts at communicationquite the same since I ran across their big dilemma. Interestingly,it shares some dynamics with The Prisoner’s Dilemma,in WinWin NonZero Game Theory,but that is a mirror mapping…

Democratization Problems

[principleofplenitude]

[principleofplenitude]

[adornography]

Estelle : Mais vous avez du goût ? Avez-vous mon goût ? Que c’est agaçant, que c’est agaçant. [But do you have good taste? Do you have my taste? How annoying…]

Inès : J’ai ton goût, puisque tu me plais. Regarde-moi bien. Souris-moi. Je ne suis pas laide non plus. Est-ce que je ne vaux pas mieux qu’un miroir ? [I have your taste because I like you. Look at me. Smile. I’m not so ugly myself. Aren’t I better than a mirror?]

—Sartre, Huis clos