Some Aspects of Behavior and Social Groups (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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What things or people do is of importance. What they are matters little. In fact, a thing is what it does. A person, still more, is what the person does. To say that the stone is hard is to say that the stone does certain things. It resists the passage of a piece of wood, a finger, a nail or a common gimlet. It is hard because it does the things. It has no hardness which we need regard apart from resisting the wood, or the finger or the gimlet. Possibly some people now would say, certainly the mediaeval scholastic would have said.

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