>Find your calm center, Rakesh. Don't forget Occam's razor cuts both
>ways.
>
>Chuck Grimes
Thanks for the advice, Chuck, oh wise and calm one. But if you read my post, you will note that I didn't forget this. Though I made a BIG mistake due to the difficulty of the idea, not lack of calmness. Occam was a nominalist, not anti nominalist. So holding that there were only singular individuals and that words designating a a group of individuals were only a useful convention that did not designate reality and was thus to be mistrusted, Occam thus maintained that 'one should not needlessly increase the number of abstract entities,'--this being the principle of economy often known as Occam's razor. And that principle as I pointed out cuts against the invocation of race, especially conceived in essentialist terms. You will also find that race discourse is also marred by confusion between typological and population thinking.
Thanks again, Rakesh