Disappointment Over Nationalistic Authoritarian Regimes May Have

As Medium For Reaching Understanding, Speech Acts Serve: A) To Establish And Renew Interpersonal Relations, Whereby The Speaker Takes Up A Relation To Something In The World Of Legitimate Social Orders; B) To Represent States And Events, Whereby The Speaker Takes Up A Relation To Something In The World Of Existing States Of Affairs; C) To Manifest Experiences That Is, To Represent Oneself- Whereby The Speaker Takes Up A Relation To Something In The Subjective World To Which He Has Privileged Access.

Osama Bin Laden, The Person, More Likely Serves The Function Of A Stand-in. Compare The New Terrorists With Partisans Or Conventional Terrorists In Israel. These People Often Fight In A Decentralized Manner In Small, Autonomous Units, Too.

Positivism Stands Or Falls With The Principle Of Scientism, That Is That The Meaning Of Knowledge Is Defined By What The Sciences Do And Can Thus Be Adequately Explicated Through The Methodological Analysis Of Scientific Procedures.

The Avant-garde Understands Itself As Invading Unknown Territory, Exposing Itself To The Dangers Of Sudden, Shocking Encounters, Conquering An As Yet Unoccupied Future ... The Avant-garde Must Find A Direction In A Landscape Into Which No One Seems To Have Yet Ventured.

All Affected Can Accept The Consequences And The Side Effects That [the Norm's] General Observance Can Be Anticipated To Have For The Satisfaction Of Everyone's Interests, And The Consequences Are Preferred To Those Of Known Alternative Possibilities For Regulation.