[Craig, previously] > But societies don't have purposes of their own. They have only the > purposes we give them.
[John] > if you examine this "we" you'll see that you're talking about Society. Examined, but not seen. Societies have the purposes societies give them is non-explanatory. So we should stick with: societies have the purposes its members give them. [Mark] > we have no idea what the societal or intellectual consciousness is > knowing. [Craig] > But we do--we just take a poll of its members. [John] > But societal or intellectual consciousness has designated > spokesmen In cases where this is true, that just reduces the number of members which must be polled. In no case is there anything other than polling members. Craig Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
