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    It is not the case that A methodological individualist can coherently employ Habermas's theory of communicative action rather than rational choice theory as the model of rational action.

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    • 1.Habermas's communicative rationality is constitutively intersubjective, meaning it cannot be reduced to or instantiated by individual actors in isolation.
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    • 2.Methodological individualism requires that social phenomena be fully explicable via properties and relations of individuals as the base ontological unit.
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    • 3.A theory whose rational norms are only realized through irreducibly collective speech situations cannot serve as a model within a strictly individualist explanatory framework.
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    • 1.Habermas explicitly grounds communicative action in the lifeworld, a pre-individual background structure that conditions all individual rationality.
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    • 2.If the lifeworld is a genuinely supra-individual condition of possibility for action, then communicative action theory presupposes a non-individualist ontology.
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    • 3.A theoretical model that smuggles in supra-individual ontological commitments cannot be coherently adopted by a strict methodological individualist without abandoning those commitments.
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    • 1.Methodological individualism only requires explanation at the level of individual action, not commitment to rational choice theory specifically.
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    • 2.Habermas's theory of communicative action is a theory of rational action.
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    • 3.There is no logical incompatibility between methodological individualism and communicative action theory.
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