[Air-l] conceptual lexicon

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

>
>> It is just one theoretical tradition that accepts that aggregation or
>> the whole is equal to the some of the parts, others believe that the
>> whole is less than and/or greater than the some of the parts.
>
> Screw belief; show me evidence - and evidence that has descriptive  
> (if not also explanatory, and perhaps even practical) application.
>
> I'm not simply asking for an account of a collective identity for  
> any particular collective, though that would be a good starting  
> point. I'm challenging whether "the whole is" is even meaningful.  
> The whole isn't. It isn't simply that a collective's "identity" is  
> dubious; in much of modern life, boundary conditions for  
> "collective" are, too.

You can't get there from where you are.   you have to toss the  
atomism and start considering that there are molecules and moles  
which act fundamentally different as a whole than as a collection of  
atoms.




jeremy hunsinger
Assistant Professor
Pratt Institute
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