smith@slacvm.BITNET (08/20/86)
Terry C. Savage (TCS@USC-ECL.ARPA) says that we can "define society to
be some group of people". What is "some group of people"? Society?
Why don't we all start a "dictionary" so that ambiguities can be
refered to and resolved. It may be very benificial to build up such a
dictionary since it would apply some discipline to our political
thought. It would be interesting to include Savage's definition of
Society into set theory. Since we would not want to be circular we
would have something like:
Society is the set of some group of people, which do not include
Society as a subset (needed, otherwise too circular for definition).
This looks like the type of definition headed for a contradiction.
Can someone give us a definition of Society which we can all agree
upon (to the extent we can agree at all)?
John R. Smith
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