Deutsch's Catalog
Updated 2026-08-22
INTRODUCTION
English translation pending.
CORE DEFINITION
The Deutsch catalog, attributed to Morton Deutsch, is a list of the conditions of cooperation and competition, identifying which factors promote cooperation and which lead to conflict. In its companion usage it is the catalog of good explanations advocated by David Deutsch: an explanation should be falsifiable, connect precisely to the facts, and cover a broad range without vagueness. Either way it is a design guide, not a slogan: cooperation is built by creating the listed conditions, and a theory is kept only if its explanations survive the test.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Build conditions, not cheers: create the listed conditions for cooperation instead of exhorting people to cooperate. - Test every explanation: ask whether it could be falsified by an observation. - Check the fit: ask whether it touches the facts precisely and covers broadly without going vague.
Anchor fast decisions
A claim that no possible observation could contradict cannot be wrong, so it carries no information about the world; requiring falsifiability, hard contact, and precise breadth filters for theories that actually constrain expectation. Cooperation works the same way: it emerges from structural conditions, not from the volume of the appeal.
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