Lexicon of Arguments

 

Reese-Schäfer II 100
"Double Contingency"/Parsons/Reese-Schäfer: no action can ensue if Alter makes his action dependent on how Ego acts and Ego wants to connect its behavior to Alter.
Solution: time dimension.
Double contingency inevitably leads to the formation of social systems.
>Time/Luhmann, >Action/Luhmann, >Action system/Luhmann.
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AU Cass 10
Double Contingency/Luhmann: I have to think about what I'm doing, so that you do what I want you to do.
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AU Cass 14
Double Contingency/Parsons: the social order already exists before the contracts, family before family law, church before dogmatism, etc.
Cf. >Beginning.
Luhmann: question: how is an optimal way found if everybody can contribute their effort, but also their denial? - Two actors are assumed - Alter/Ego.
Contingency: two dimensions:
1) Dependency on something
2) It might be different.
Common values ​​are secondary.
The common values are not even recognized ​​in the beginning. - Pure temporality - One acts first - thus he breaks through a circle. - ("I do what you want if you ...").
cf. >Circular reasoning.
Question: what was first, the double contingency or the system?
>System/Luhmann.
AU Cass 14
Double Contingency/Luhmann: conflict resolution - existence only in execution, no history, no initial conditions.