At 09:01 AM 1/25/99 -0700, Dick.Gray@bull.com wrote:
>Ian sez:
>>The "no group entity" proposition is a fallacy
>
>Only if "entity" is defined so broadly as to lose most of its
>discriminatory value.
>>inherent to atomism that overlooks or denies outright
>>the existence of holistic connections and structures.
>
>Nobody's defending "atomism" here. No one here has denied the existence of
>holistic connections and structures.
" A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with the idea from the beginning."
Max Plank - Nobel physicist