Kevin Simler

@KevinSimler @sarahdoingthing I'm using transcendental in the Kantian sense, a kind of idealism economics glosses over, not supernaturalism

@hamandcheese @sarahdoingthing I think I get it, but an example would do wonders.

@hamandcheese @sarahdoingthing you mean that people *experience* rituals as transcendental instead of economic? (if so, totally...)

@hamandcheese (er, I'm a bit fuzzy on "transcendental")

@KevinSimler Say I argue that communion is a ritual people do to symbolically signal in-group commitment. Yet if asked that's not the case.

@KevinSimler The adherent may acknowledge that function exists, but says further that communion is a holy sacrament with intrinsic value

@hamandcheese totally. but in my view this is so much of human social behavior! we deny our social motives by claiming they're s.t. else

@hamandcheese usually the counterfactual shows what's up. if communion didn't strengthen community, people wouldn't do it. (this is my bias)