False necessity, or anti-necessitarian social theory, is a contemporary social theory that argues for the plasticity of social organizations and their...
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In logic and mathematics, necessity and sufficiency are terms used to describe a conditional or implicational relationship between two statements. For...
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Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory (section Volume 1: False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy)
of human life and society. Politics was published in three volumes: False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy...
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unpredictable events in place of deterministic necessity. Rational choice theory, symbolic interactionism, false necessity are examples of more recent developments...
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is a key component in Unger's theory of false necessity and formative context. The theory of false necessity claims that social worlds are the artifact...
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In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually...
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A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning...
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address this problem of agency in relation to structure. In his work on false necessity – or anti-necessitarian social theory – Unger recognizes the constraints...
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come to see the existing arrangements as necessary. Unger calls this false necessity. In reality, these arrangements are arbitrary and hold together rather...
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Necessary (redirect from Political necessity defense)
obviously false (contradiction) Metaphysical necessity, in philosophy, a truth which is true in all possible worlds Necessity in modal logic Necessity good...
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