Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Is There a Social System for Which No One Has Knew?
There is a straino warfare in inside humanism, and also between the humanists and. certain versions of positivist science that says that ultimately, if you could figure out absolutely everything about a thing, you could determine its meaning fully and absolutely. And my guess is that thereis, probably there probably never will be. But too, if i had to make a more general argument about it, i would say something like the complexity of mind based social systems is such that there will always be the poss ability of surprise in the system. That would be a kind of general claim that i would make. There is no social system for which that is true, right there? There there is no
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