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Re: Pluck and Culture Change
Read, Dwight ANTHRO (Read@ANTHRO.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU)
Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:16:00 PDT
Brunton comments:
"Proving that there is a thingie called 'free will' is about the same as
proving there is a thingie called 'culture' or 'society'. Take a picture
of culture and show it to me."
Try taking a picture of a "force field".
Sometimes we posit the existence of an abstraction by the consequences that
can be observed.
Or, I may be misreading Brunton and it may be that Brunton is just trying to
say that "culture" doesn't have a material existence as it is an abstraction
whose "material" manifestation is in the form of "ideas" in the heads of
people.
D. Read
READ@ANTHRO.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU
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