actually Cliff wrote that.
Arno wrote:
>However, when a heterarchy is at stake, it is no longer possible to
>distinguish between primitives and relations, and the nominalist game of
>(really existing) primitives and (constructed/assigned) relations breaks
>down. In a relational model of an organism, for example, at one and the
>same moment a term may be a) a relation between two other terms, and b) a
>primitive term; cf. Rosen's treatment of mappings and sets. Here a realist
>versus nominalist debate is no longer relevant, because the observer is no
>longer the only subject in the room.
I like this!!!
Jeff Prideaux