Numbers name the intermediate agent between individual and society that neither alone can enact

Evidence

Herewith is expressed the profound relation between relativity and society, which is the most immediate demonstration of relativity in regard to the material of humanity: society is the supra-singular structure which is nonetheless not abstract. Through this concept historical life is spared the alternatives of having to run either in mere individuals or in abstract generalities. Society is the generality that has, simultaneously, concrete vitality. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 274 (#expands, via linked claim)

Individual and society are, both for historical understanding and for normative judgment, methodological concepts. This is so either in that they divide given events and conditions among themselves or in that they deal with the unity of the given, which we cannot directly comprehend, by organizing it under two different points of view, comparable to the way a picture is considered now as a physiological and optical phenomenon, now as a cultural product, or now with respect to the technique of painting, now with respect to its content and aesthetic value. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 213 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Society is a concrete generality neither reducible to individuals nor abstract — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 274; Individual and society are methodological standpoints, not separable entities — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 213

Related

• Society is a concrete generality neither reducible to individuals nor abstract (similarity 0.85)
• Individual and society are methodological standpoints, not separable entities (similarity 0.84)
• Human essence is the ensemble of social relations, not an individual abstraction (similarity 0.84)
• Society’s development cannot be explained by physical laws of quantity. (similarity 0.81)
• Any social group can act as individual or aggregate depending on its relational frame. (similarity 0.81)
• Society serves as a third term resolving individual-objectivity conflicts (similarity 0.80)
• A set of individuals can be society to varying degrees. (similarity 0.79)
• Society names both actual human networks and the abstract forms of sociality (similarity 0.79)
• Biology and abstract reason never united humans; concrete thought did (similarity 0.79)
• The nation is a construct, not a unit for social analysis (similarity 0.79)
• Personal and collective frames are both standpoints, not reality versus abstraction (similarity 0.78)
• Humanity’s viewpoint and society’s viewpoint remain in principle distinct (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Society is a concrete generality neither reducible to individuals nor abstract #expands (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 274
• Individual and society are methodological standpoints, not separable entities #corroborates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 213