> > >Dependence presumes a hierarchy.... What about attachment?
>>
>> It appears that your reasoning is circular -- as in "dependence is
>> hierarchical because it presumes a hierarchy."
>
>Yoshie -- the concept of dependence is about hierarchy -- something
>leans on, hangs from etc, is defined entirely by because it presumes
>the existence of something else
Perhaps, you don't understand what circular reasoning is.
Yoshie