ABSTRACT

To explain social action is akin to explaining why a grand master allowed a knight to exchange for a pawn (in a chess game), as opposed to considering this an error on the order of 3 – 1 = 2 (the difference in points between the two). We cannot say in advance how far we must go in our quest to determine the context that led to this move, but this indeterminacy is simply the minimal flexibility required to understand complexity.