Marcia Karp wrote: > > I'm puzzled. You want to limit the definition of "property." I see > nothing in Tom's post that does that. > Property of course is a social relation -- not a "thing." Examine a building from here to eternity and you will never be able to determine its "ownership." That depends on a whole complex of social relations, including police, legistlation, etc etc etc. Put another way, there is no property of _any_ kind except through collective decsions of a whole organized society. Carrol > Marcia