[MD] Social Imposition ?

[David M]

Platt

But these are not simply individual they are in common,
like the fact we have both read Pirsig, so we can talk
of a common culture that we all share different bits of.

Ta
David M

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> Quoting David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>:
>
>> Hi Platt
>>
>> Shared learning and culture.
>>
>> David M
>>
>
>> >> David M
>> >
>> > Please explain "collective inheritances."  Thanks.
>
> I prefer to think of "cultural" intellectual patterns as being static
> patterns contained in individual minds. Societies after all are 
> abstractions
> of thought. No one has ever taken a picture of a society.
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