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From: tcs@USC-ECL.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Poli-Sci Digest   V6 #21
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Date: Sun, 10-Aug-86 03:16:04 EDT
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While I agree with many of his positions, Keith Lynch's
contention that Society does not exist is a pedantic Libertarian 
fiction. It is quite simple to define a society to be some group
of people and...presto! Society exists using that defintion,
within the context of that discussion. Defining a social entity can
be analytically useful. If one then wants to say that this
entity as defined should not/cannot/must not do "x", fine, then that
is an assertion of viewpoint, or a hypothesis
that can be teseted against fact. To say that Society doesn't exist
is just silly.

TCS
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