Weber’s elective-affinity method relocated ideology analysis from content to structural homology

Evidence

Any classification system or taxonomy is surrealistic; for surrealistic art also depends on bringing together incongruous or anachronistic facts, which nevertheless somehow snap together to illuminate new relationships. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 458 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

The form of Newton’s Principia, in spite of its admittedly empirical material, is entirely dominated by Euclid. Theology, in its exact scholastic forms, takes its style from the same source. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 208 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Symbolic systems function as instruments of domination by reproducing class relations in transfigured form; Euclidean axiomatic structure dominated Newton Principia and political doctrine — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 208; The Yoruba Ifa Corpus contains elements compatible with metaphysics (+1 more)

Related

• Classification systems function like surrealist art in revealing new relationships (similarity 0.83)
• Euclidean axiomatic structure dominated Newton Principia and political doctrine (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Classification systems function like surrealist art in revealing new relationships #exemplifies (0.65) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 458
• Euclidean axiomatic structure dominated Newton Principia and political doctrine #exemplifies (0.60) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 208
• The Yoruba Ifa Corpus contains elements compatible with metaphysics #exemplifies (0.45)