From: Ian Goddard (Ian@Goddard.net)
Date: Sat Jan 23 1999 - 15:21:03 MST
At 03:56 AM 1/23/99 -0800, James Ganong wrote:
>The Market would seem to fit certain criteria' matching those of a
>collective/conceptual entity,
>despite being a set of relationships of objects.
>Indeed, the Economy would also seem to fit these criteria. Even if the
>Economy is viewed as a stage where interactions are played out, there
>must be entities such as nations & corporations playing their roles, in
>addition to the individual humans.
>
>I guess my point is that Ayn Rand was wrong;
IAN: The "no group entity" proposition is a fallacy
inherent to atomism that overlooks or denies outright
the existence of holistic connections and structures.
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