Re: The "Group-Entity" Illusion

From: Dick.Gray@bull.com
Date: Wed Jan 20 1999 - 08:28:41 MST


Chris Wolcomb (who apparently hasn't been following this thread) writes:
>I therefore see no philosophical reason to speak of 'society' as any less
>fictious as a single 'human' or single 'cell', both of which could just as
>easily be seen as fictions in the same way that 'society' is a fiction.

>Either everything beyond a collection of atoms is fiction, or Ayn Rand is
>Wrong - pure and simple.

I believe I already explained why this line of reasoning is false. Read the
whole thread, Chris. There's nothing in social organisation remotely
resembling the integration of cells in a human body.

Dick



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