Of course.
When first young _Maro_* in his boundless Mind
A work t'outlast Immortal _Rome_ design'd,
Perhaps he seem'd _above_ the Critick's Law,
And but from _Nature's Fountains_ scorn'd to draw:
But when t'examine ev'ry Part he came,
_Nature_ and _Homer_ were, he found, the _same_
Convinc'd, amaz'd, he checks the bold Design,
And Rules as strict his labour'd Work confine,
As if the _Stagyrite_^ o'erlooked each Line.
Learn hence for Ancient _Rules_ a just Esteem;
To copy _Nature_ is to copy _Them_.
(*Virgil; ^Aristotle)
(A. Pope, _Essay on Criticism_, 130-140)
I'm not telling anyone anything very new (I hope), and my interest in that post was not at all in the women's movement but in my point about "SUV drivers." I want to keep alive the distinction between meaningful and not meaningful categories. SUV drivers is at best a trivial category, at worst (as in the present case I think) a corruption of political thought.
And on other lists I am (or will be) involved in an effort to maintain the meaningfulness of the category "capitalism," against the efforts of (at least some) world-systems adherents, and the tendency of Blaut's arguments, to reduce it to mush by equating it with commercial activity.
Nominalism is a powerful tool but a destructive master.
Carrol