[Xmca-l] Re: Parts and wholes

[Andy Blunden]

People, animals,  it seems that when it is instituted as a 
bridge by perhaps having a road made up to it, it is only 
then constituted as a bridge.

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Andy Blunden
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http://www.brill.com/products/book/origins-collective-decision-making 

On 2/09/2016 2:33 PM, Peter Smagorinsky wrote:
> Actually some bridges are constructed over highways specifically to enable herds of animals to migrate. That's a bridge to me.
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> without people travelling across it, it is not a bridge.
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> Andy Blunden
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> On 2/09/2016 12:51 PM, mike cole wrote:
>> >From Italo Calvino, "Invisible cities" -- a conversation between
>>> Marco Polo
>> and Kublai Khan, one of many. Some relationship here of constituting
>> and instituting?
>>
>> mike
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>> Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone.
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>>               "But which is the stone that supports the bridge," Kublai
>> Khan asks.
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>>               "The bridge is not supported by one stone or another,"
>> Marco answers, "but by the line of the arch that they form."
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>>               Kublai Kahn remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds:
>> "Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me."
>>
>>               Polo answers. Without the stones, there is no arch."
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