> While the Greeks spoke of that, Grice, too. In _Conception of Value_, he
> talks of the function of a tiger to be 'to tigerise' -- and the same for
> each
> noun. This is the finality (ratio essendi).
May it be inferred from this that the function of a burglar is to burglarise,
of a motorist to motorise and of a bullshitter to philosophise?
Donal
Rooting for anti-essentialism
London
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