in the scientific study of good would be to examine the
nature, circumstances, and existence of a single-random or particular-thing
in an effort to discover all goods of or connected with the thing, or every
way and degree in which any or every thing is or is not 'good' for the
thing or 'from the thing's perspective'.

<P>Were the thing to be given such comprehensive agathological scrutiny
an ant, for example, one might ask and try to answer these questions: Is
the presence of a minimum amount of water in t