Sentence:  We must avoid the notion , suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned , that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of <WSD>people</WSD> to another or even , for that matter , from one individual to another . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively