In a message dated 10/4/2004 2:57:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
rmitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Donal is "rooting for anti-essentialism"
- on a computer presumably purchased with an eye towards its power, speed,
memory, durability, etc., etc.
- the "virtues" (i.e., "excellences") that determine how well that device
performs the functions that he bought it for.
In that respect, I don't know how one would anti-essentially purchase
anything.
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Exactly. Note that a computer, essentially, computes.
While a word-processor word-processes (words).
(cf. McEvoy's irreverent, "A philosopher bullshits").
McEvoy, like Popper, does not believe in _essences_. In this, he reminds me
of Andy Amago, who, too, says that life is meaningless.
Cheers,
JL
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