hich at once illustrates the importance of clarifying fundamentals and
suggests that the traits that were used to define the phenomenon of "life"
were indeed fundamental.

<P>On the other hand, the same bit of ideonomic research also highlighted
the problems that plague all efforts to resolve fundamentals or to get
at the genuine foundations of a subject; for it was found that the same
set of ninety-two basic properties of "life" have either analogs or exact
equivalents in the supposedly inanimate phenomena