In the Ordinary Sense

Friday, January 28, 2011

Operative definition....

A philosopher is someone for whom the following is a joke: "The temptation to tell anthropologists that taboo is the name of a non-natural quality would be very strong for any Polynesian who had read G.E. Moore." (MacIntyre 1970, p. 68)
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