I believe Psychohistorian’s criticism is primarily about the “shell” image: if interpreted as a Venn diagram, it gets the subset inclusion hierarchy backwards. Judging by your comment above, you have a different metaphor in mind—something like a map in which an individual starts in the center and effortfully moves to the edge.
I believe Psychohistorian’s criticism is primarily about the “shell” image: if interpreted as a Venn diagram, it gets the subset inclusion hierarchy backwards. Judging by your comment above, you have a different metaphor in mind—something like a map in which an individual starts in the center and effortfully moves to the edge.
That makes more sense.