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From: pan@well.UUCP (Philip Nicholls)
Newsgroups: alt.individualism
Subject: Re: Individualism - Reality or Myth?
Message-ID: <5646@well.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 88 04:53:57 GMT
References: <779@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <1081@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <7705@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <4344@chinet.UUCP> <5539@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: pan@well.UUCP (Philip Nicholls)
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In article <5539@spool.cs.wisc.edu> gautier@ai.cs.wisc.edu (Jorge Gautier) writes:
>..."groups" ...are merely convenient abstractions
>devised to help us in thinking about the complexities of existence.  To claim
>that the "groups we belong to" define our selves is ridiculous.  At most
>these "groups" will influence our selves, but never completely determine
>them.
>
>Groups do not exist.  Individuals exist.

One might argue also that material objects are really abstractions devised to
help us in thinking about the complexities of exitence.  As we know, the solid
appearance of an object is a illusion, as atoms are mostly empty space.

To paraphrase:

Objects do not exist.  Atoms do not exist.


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