... towards political science, I appreciate your opinion.
However I have some questions.
Your commentary was mostly against bipolarity, and maybe, to some extent, I may agree that it is not that all-embracing. But should I then try to focus on multipolarity,... ... you like that word). I suppose you are familiar with such theory as positivism. Today, there is a rather vivid tendency among social sciences to use ideas from real sciences (math, physics, etc.) in an attempt to make this body of knowledge more scientific....
... didn’t bore you, but this is what I’ve been thinking about lately.
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[16.05.2010]
[3:23 a.m.]
Popper
My friend,
There is a lot of stuff I’d like to argue with you about (like ‘polarity’, complex systems, math in social sciences), but I’ll stick to one thing – typologies.
It’s obvious that when you do science, you need typologies. Sometimes, however, we use too much of these and it doesn’t help us at all. ‘Bipolarity’ (and any other ‘polarity’) seems like a typology to me. It was rather good in explaining (partially) the Cold War era (well, there was the Non-Aligned Movement, so it’s not really a bipolarity, isn’t it?), but ...
