the thing about reductionism (of this sort, not GA Cohen's) is that it tries to derive "macroproperties" and "entities" from microproperties and entities without looking at the way that macroproperties and entities _feed back_ to determine the character of microproperties and entities. JD
^^^^^^^ CB: Sometimes said " the whole is greater than the sum of the parts; and the nature of the parts is determined by their relationship to the whole ."