File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_2002/bhaskar.0202, message 137


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.



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