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    Comments on Carlos Blanco-Perez's Essay (2018) "On the Principles of a Social Theory"
    Comments on Carlos Blanco-Perez's Essay (2018) "On the Principles of a Social Theory"
    Comments on Carlos Blanco-Perez's Essay (2018) "On the Principles of a Social Theory"
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    Comments on Carlos Blanco-Perez's Essay (2018) "On the Principles of a Social Theory"

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    Carlos Blanco-Perez, at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain, publishes an article in the October 2018 issue of Cadmus (volume 3(5), pgs. 75-80), entitled "On the Principles of a Social Theory". The essay presents 10 premises that are essential for any viable social theory.
    In these comments, the word "essential" serves to launch a hypothesis about the social thing. In the process, light is shed on the social sciences.
    How so?
    According to the tradition of Charles Peirce, things belong to secondness. Secondness consists in two contiguous real elements. This may be diagrammed as 'one element [contiguity] other element'.
    Aristotle considered a thing (broadly defined to include events and spirits) in precisely this fashion. A thing is 'being [substantiates] form'. Here, "being" corresponds to the Latin term "ens". Ens is often translated as "being as being".
    Essence is "the final attributes of the thing" or the substantiation of form.
    Another Latin term, esse, is "being as existent", corresponding to formal requirements and design.
    Essence contrasts with existence (ens without substance).
    Esse contrasts with form (what we call a particular thing in order to categorize it).
    These terms constitute a feedback loop centering on Aristotle's definition of thing.
    This feedback loop generates social theories that satisfy Blanco-Perez's ten premises. Indeed, it serves as the foundation for the articulation of social theories in our current Lebenswelt.
    Even more, the feedback loop fits Darwin's paradigm. It is innate. It belongs to the Lebenswelt that we evolved in.
    The implications are enormous.
    We need social theories that treats humans as humans and things as things.

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    Release dateDec 8, 2018
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      Comments on Carlos Blanco-Perez's Essay (2018) On the Principles of a Social Theory

      By Razie Mah

      Published for Smashwords.com

      2018

      Notes on Text

      These comments concern Carlos Blanco-Perez's essay, On the Principles of a Social Theory, published in the journal Cadmus (volume 3(5), 2018, pages 75-80). A curious use of words in the abstract serves as a launching point for developing a social theory that satisfies the 10 premises that the author wishes to establish. Models based on Peirce's triadic relations can be diverse. The social theory developed here relies on the nature of Peirce's secondness and applies (like most of the premises) most rigorously to the Lebenswelt that we evolved in.

      Prerequisites include A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form, A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction. Additional reading includes How to Define the Word Religion and The Human Niche.

      Words in italics or 'single quotes' go together.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Essence and existence⁰, esse and form⁰

      First, Tenth and Second Premises

      Premises Four and Three

      Premises Five and Six

      Premises Seven and Eight

      Premise Nine

      Transubstantiation

      Desubstantiation

      Introduction

      0001 Social theory is in turmoil. Consider Sasha Newell's Essay, The Affectiveness of Symbols, appearing in Current Anthropology (2018).

      The journal, Cadmus, features the article under consideration. Cadmus aims to promote leadership in thought, leading to action. This mandate calls for social theories centered on human activity and things. Yet, such theories must not exclude what it is to be human or to be a thing. This is a very difficult qualification, which Carlos Blanco-Perez strives to achieve.

      0002 Composing a social theory where people are things is fairly easy. Many modern and post-modern social theorists accomplish this quite well. They simply imitate the empirical sciences.

      A greater challenge is composing a social theory where humans are humans and things are things. The conceptual

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