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SDCT0011: This episode gives a brief overview of the book that Daniel Dodge is writing, and presents a few of his thoughts about the characteristics of a perfect psychological or political theory. When a theory is fully simplified and developed, it would have an elegance that allows it to reuse many of its same terms, propositions, and conceptual structures in many different or broad spheres of study. To verbally describe a perfect theory might somewhat resemble the reading of a poem: it would have an echoing pattern of words and phrases that, with each repetition, adds a new layer of meaning and understanding. Visually, a perfect theory might resemble a diamond: balanced and symmetrical, where every facet reflects every other facet, and every feature is counterbalanced with a mirror opposite. It could also resemble an intricate spider web, where every strand of logic is positioned in exactly the right place, without tangles or conflations, and where every strand makes every other strand stronger and pulling on one of them means pulling on all of them. (This episode begins a series of informal voice notes.)
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By Daniel DodgeSDCT0011: This episode gives a brief overview of the book that Daniel Dodge is writing, and presents a few of his thoughts about the characteristics of a perfect psychological or political theory. When a theory is fully simplified and developed, it would have an elegance that allows it to reuse many of its same terms, propositions, and conceptual structures in many different or broad spheres of study. To verbally describe a perfect theory might somewhat resemble the reading of a poem: it would have an echoing pattern of words and phrases that, with each repetition, adds a new layer of meaning and understanding. Visually, a perfect theory might resemble a diamond: balanced and symmetrical, where every facet reflects every other facet, and every feature is counterbalanced with a mirror opposite. It could also resemble an intricate spider web, where every strand of logic is positioned in exactly the right place, without tangles or conflations, and where every strand makes every other strand stronger and pulling on one of them means pulling on all of them. (This episode begins a series of informal voice notes.)