PHL * K101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Productive Forces, Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
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Hands move with constant speed a round the clock. Mechanism in the clock must satisfy the need of keeping time consist- there must be some regulating or governing system. We start with the notion of functional adequacy, we can derive necessary conditions that must be met. To have a adequate functional explanation, we must generate a menu of needs- then we can ask what are the resources within this society that meet those generated needs. Can only make arguments of the existence of a functionally equivalent category of object to fulfill a need. Need to specific a normal range of something. From that account of adequate function, one can generate a menu of needs to. From that menu of needs we can go from there maintain the arbitrarily defined adequacy. Marxist functionalist explanations puts the problem of various interests of different social groups. Base- characterized as a mode of production". Relation of production (social relations of production)
