[lit-ideas] McEvoy Jumps
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:18:13 EDT
McEvoy's Anti-Essentialism
In a message dated 10/4/2004 3:55:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
NYCEric@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Donal waggishly wrote: You snobby suck-up.
Nec. (Donal McEvoy DONALMCEVOYISE) WISEGUYIFIZE?
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For McEvoy, like Popper, there are no _essences_ -- indeed, no 'natural'
necessity.
Nec (McEvoy McEvoys)
is, for him, a string of nonsense.
In the world of scientific materialism, indeed, there are no essences.
From another point of view, it's back to Isaiah Berlin's negative freedom,
Donal will say:
"There is nothing McEvoy _must_ do (to be McEvoy")
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Therefore: There is no _essence_ to (Donal) McEvoy.
I believe this is _jumping_ to a conclusion. But, how else does a Popperian
reach a conclusion but _jumping_ to it?
Cheers,
JL
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