Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 22:19:01 -0500 From: Ruth Groff <rgroff-AT-yorku.ca> Subject: Re: BHA: Re: Persons/agents Hi Tobin, >In PON2, RB is pretty clear that structures possess causal powers >(generative mechanisms) -- see e.g. p 170. Yes, of course, the whole thrust of the analogy is that structures are generative mechanisms. And yet there are these weird, seeming-equivocations peppered through the discussion, about how it is only people who actually act -- hence Benton's charge in that early critique. Anyway, as I said, I think the seeming-equivocations are best ignored. r. --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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