Good day Haris, are you familiar with Arrow's impossibility theorem? What is not possible in social choice theory?
A parallel logic can be applied in the case of critical problem solving, e.g. environmental, such as the environmental sustainability problem or e.g. health related, such as the covid pandemic to identify an impossibility...
I use A and B in my coming paper to introduce a general impossibility framework, and then it can be applied to specific critical issues.
If you define A = Flawed paradigm and B = CONSEQUENCE, Then the general impossibility theorem can be pointed out, which can later be applied to uncover situation when action is taken in contradiction to the impossibility theorem.
Can you see now the impossibility if your goal is to fix the flawed paradigm?
I am currently working on advancing such a general impossibility theorem, when peer reviewed I will share it.
I am a bit familiar with Arrow's Impossibility theorem - indirectly, I haven't read his stuff, but in general decision-making by democratic means literature.
Am I right to think that what you say is essentially that if you start from a flawed paradigm which has such and such consequence, then somehow you cannot change the paradigm if you can't get rid of the consequences?
I'd like to engage with your work, it would be interesting, so please keep me up to date!
Gratefully (for having spent the time to explain to me) yours,
Haris, you may find the following paper interesting as it has some good food for thoughts related to the question and how I am going to frame this impossibility framework.
The Unintended Consequences of Paradigm Death and Shift: Was the Arrow Impossibility Theorem Left Behind?
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