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If form tends to follow function in design, what would the equivalent be in critical thinking? Are there forms of argumentation (assumptions, evidence, reasoning) that constrain the function (in contrast to the desired function dictating the form)? This line of inquiry led me to this reference.

"the liberal rhetoric of individualism and personal choice is casually affirmed without sufficient attention to the ways in which one's choices and much else are influenced by tradition and community. Many interfaith couples have "chosen the romanticism and the individualistic ethos of America over the demands of the communities that they have come from" only to find, later on, that those demands still exert a force. "