Comments on Ahmed Badawi’s Essay (2018) "Conflicted Rules Theory"

By Razie Mah

Dr. Ahmen Mousa Badawi publishes an article in The Wadi Al-Nil (Nile Valley) Journal, (2018, issue 18, volume 3, pages 1-42). This journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal for humanitarian, social and educational studies and research. The full title is "Conflicted Rules Theory (CRT): A New Theory in Sociology".
This article of interest to me. A similar, not identical, theory appears in the chapter on presence in How To Define The Word "Religion".
Badawi's theory is systematic and thorough. In these comments, I associate his terminology to various slots in a three-level interscope and ask, "What do these associations imply?"
The three-level interscope consists of three category-based nested forms arranged as a category based nested form. Each category-based nested form has three elements, the realms of normal context3, actuality2 and potential1. The interscope follows the same elemental pattern with the levels of perspectivec, situationb and contenta. The subscripts denote Peirce's categories.
What do I learn?
Here are two items.
Badawi's terminology fits the interscope. The three levels are integrationc, conflictb and privatea. The five social circles (I reserve the words "realms" and "levels" for the category-based nested form) of micro, meso, macro, regal and global serve as normal contexts3b for the conflict (or situation) levelb.
Also, there is are directional flows among the actualities on all three levels, which Badawi intimates with the term, "liquid rule". I use the alchemic metaphor of "distillation" and "condensation". Similar flows appear in the comments on Eric Santner's and Peter Burfiend's works.
In sum, Badawi offers a systematic theory that coheres to the framework of Peirce's categories and opens new territory for inquiry in the discipline of Sociology. I thank him for his excellent work.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Razie Mah
• Release date: Nov 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9781942824923

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Comments on Ahmed Badawi's Essay (2018) Conflicted Rules Theory

By Razie Mah

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2020

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This work comments on an article by Dr. Ahmed Mousa Badawi, published in 2018 in the Wadi Al-Nil Journal for Humanitarian, Social and Educational Studies and Researches (issue 18, volume 3, pages 1-42). The full title of the essay is Conflicted Rules Theory (CRT): A New Theory in Sociology. My goal is to comment on this work using the category-based nested form, the interscope, the dyadic structure of actuality and other relational models within the tradition of Charles Peirce.

‘Words that belong together’ are denoted by single quotes or italics.

Prerequisites: A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form, A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction

Recommended: How to Define the Word Religion, Comments on Eric Santer's Book (2014) The Weight of All Flesh, A Second Primer on the Society Tier

Table of Contents

A Blank Slate

Main Concepts of CRT

Expanding CRT's Conceptual Frame

Mechanisms of Change

Application of CRT

A Blank Slate

0001 Dr. Ahmed Mousa Badawi publishes an article in the Wadi Al-Nil Journal for Humanitarian, Social and Educational Studies and Researches. He proposes a new sociological theory, which he labels Conflicted Rules Theory. The text is translated into English by Mahmoud Nagah Khalaf and Ahmad Muhammad Hamza. My thanks for this labor of translation.

0002 Why should I examine this essay?

Dr. Badawi mentions his many influences in contemporary sociology, with one complaint.

Ambiguity.

In contrast to this lack of clarity, Dr. Badawi aims to establish a foundation that can be extended from the immediate application, conflict, into other disciplines within the field of Sociology.

0003 My goal in these comments is to demonstrate that the grounds beneath Dr. Badawi's foundation is a categorical structure called the interscope. An interscope is a category-based nested form composed of category-based nested forms.

Here, the required reading assists. The nested form and the interscope are introduced in these readings.

Here is a picture of the general interscope.

0004 Clearly, the general interscope is a purely relation structure containing elements that are blank.

In the course of these comments, I will associate terms in Dr. Badawi's theory to these empty slots. Then, I will reflect upon the result.

The method is synthetic. First, I draw an association. Second, I consider the implications.

0005 The category-based nested form is a triadic structure inspired by the American philosopher Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914). Known as the first postmodern semiotician, Peirce may also be considered a renewal of the Baroque scholastic tradition. Peirce's definition of sign matches