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{{DES | des = A [[Greedy Reductionism|greedy reductionist]] (in the words of [[Daniel Dennett]]) attempt to oppose "collectivist" theories with theories of atomistic individuals. But individuals always exist and are entwined within societies. Actually adhering to methodological individualism would mean ignoring families, households, corporations, governments and all other social groups in analysis.  It is obviously stupid to ignore these sorts of emergent properties. | show=}}
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{{DES | des =  Individuals always exist within and are entwined with societies. Actually adhering to methodological individualism would mean ignoring families, households, corporations, governments and all other social groups in analysis.  It is obviously stupid to ignore these sorts of emergent properties. Methodological individualism also blinkers us to social interactions.  A [[Greedy Reductionism|greedy reductionist]] (in the words of [[Daniel Dennett]]) attempt to oppose "[[Collectivism|collectivist]]" theories with invalid models of atomistic individuals. | show=}}
 
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