Pluralization, Individuation, Inadequacy

In some methodological contexts, a process of Abstraction is compounded, e. g. Cartesian Doubt, Lockeian tabula rasa, Husserlian Epoche, i. e. in them, Abstraction is effected, and then is itself abstracted from. Thus, the common Social Atomistic concept of the Individual is, as has been previously shown, the product of an abstraction from the process of Pluralization that is itself suppressed, yielding an apparent irreducible simple element. But, in ordinary experience, that concept emerges from a converse pattern, as is more appropriately characterized by Spinoza's term 'Inadequate Idea', or, even more accurately, 'Semi-Adequate Idea'. For, in its ordinary use, 'Individual' is short-sighted, i. e. it signifies a perception of a partial phenomenon that is interpreted as if it were complete. Accordingly, on the basis of spatio-temporal separation and the sense of one's Motility, one appears to oneself as fundamentally independent of others, which as current events regularly illustrate, suffices for Political purposes, but to the detriment of a Pluralistic concept of Society. Usually, a logical demonstration of the inadequacy of such a mindset is less effective in overcoming it than some deliberate educative process implemented at a more malleable stage of development. Such a process can begin with the realization that what one takes as a complete perception is actually incomplete.