Yet , as we have demonstrated , it has an identifiable disciplinary base in explaining why firms differ from one another in terms of their profit performance , despite of equilibrating competition .
According to pure cultural determinism , therefore , everything we know about being violent from playground fights to spouse battering to gay bashing to war is taught to us directly by some identifiable individual , or indirectly through cultural example .
In other words , children , at least , don 't automatically infer meaning in natural events without first being primed somehow with the idea of an identifiable supernatural agent such as princess alice ( or god , one 's dead mother , angels , etc. )