Talk:Organizing principle

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Fundamental organizing principles of human organizations[edit]

As far as I can determine for now there are only three fundamental organizing principles of human organizations, from which all the others are merely subdivisions.
Human organizations can only be funded in basic relationships between members of the organization.
The three basic relationships are:

Common Genetics
Common Ideology
Common Interest (Procreational, Sociological or Economical)

77.172.59.47 (talk) 11:49, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Steinberg article[edit]

Citation #1 is broken. Looking for it, I found the following: http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2002/06/summer-terrorism-steinberg

This appears to be the correct article, but it was published in 2002, not 2008. The original citation might have linked to a reprint or some other reproduction? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:5:9280:565:9023:D1C9:55D9:C5C7 (talk) 20:28, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This sentence is meaningless[edit]

"Most religions can be described by social scientists as built around an organizing principle that allows for the sustainable or improvable recursion of a unique population"

AFAIK this isn't even a grammatical sentence. Recursion is a property of how something is defined, not a noun or property belonging to the thing which is defined. A population may be recursively defined (Eg "You are a turtle-ist if other turtle-ists acknowledge you as a turtle-ist."), however a population does not "have a recursion".

Nothing is needed to sustain recursion. You do not need to buy food for your pet Ouroboros. There is no meaningful way to improve or diminish a recursion. Your pet Ouroboros cannot be made more Ouroborosy than it already is.

As Noam Chomsky once said "Green ideas sleep furiously". In other words, the sentence parses but it is meaningless.