Doug Mackenzie quoted Mises:
> "It is uncontested that in the sphere of human action
> social entities have real existence. Nobody ventures to
> deny that nations, states, municipalities, parties,
> religious communities, are real factors determining the
> course of human events. Methodological individualism, far
> from contesting the significance of such collective
> wholes, considers it as one of its main tasks to describe
> and to analyze their becoming and their disappearing,
> their changing structures, and their operation. And it
> chooses the only method fitted to solve this problem
> satisfactorily."
Substitution can sometimes be useful in assessing
meaningfulness. E.g.,
It is uncontested that in the sphere of cellular
action organismic entities have real existence.
Nobody ventures to deny that individuals, brains,
organ systems, tissues, organs, are real factors
determining the course of cellular events.
Methodological cellularism, far from contesting the
significance of such collective wholes, considers it
as one of its main tasks to describe and to analyze
their becoming and their disappearing, their
changing structures, and their operation. And it
chooses the only method fitted to solve this problem
satisfactorily.
Hmmm. Perhaps Mises is guilty of overaggregation?
Cheers,
Alan Isaac
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