[lit-ideas] Re: Girls Will Be Girls
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 11:11:48 EDT
In a message dated 5/27/2010 7:08:58 A.M., donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx
writes:
"Girls will be girls" is contradictory then she is wrong: _what is, unless
it changes, will be_ - this is not a contradiction but (almost) a logical
truism. If Anscombe was interpreting the phrase to mean "Girls will
_change_ into girls", then there is a contradiction - for something cannot
_change_ into what it already is (unless it changes into something else
first).
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That was Jennifer Hornsby's point:
"The 'Girls will be girls' becomes tautologous with the introduction of an
intermediate stage".
The intermediate stage, I proposed in discussion -- 'pigs' -- was accepted
with some reluctance. The point was then raised that in which case, it
would be a pig that will be a girl. But not a girl a girl. This was referred
to
by Anscombe as 'the faith in the principle of transitivity'.
JLS
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