[lit-ideas] Re: Teleo-Functional
- From: "Lloyd Mitchell" <rmitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:57:16 -0400
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.
Essentially yours,
Lloyd Mitchell
----- Original Message -----
From: <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 2:48 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Teleo-Functional
>
>
> In a message dated 10/4/2004 12:01:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> > 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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