Surely it is clear to all that if the Skipper avers that instances of
hypersexuality constitute a null set, then he must provide evidence or
argumentation for the truth or rightness of that validity claim.
Such evidence and/or argumentation, needless to say, must include an
account of
the necessary and sufficient conditions for "hypersexuality." And such an
account must be universally valid in the sense of being transculturally
applicable. Socrates demands no less, his wife's views notwithstanding.
(Was
that a shotgun wedding, or what??)
In other words, no account of hypersexuality that trades upon specific
cultural
horizons, ethical worldviews, or religious conceptions of the good,
authenticity or saintliness, are epistemically acceptable. Such is the
philosopher's task. We did not choose this task; it chose us. Go to it.)
Btw, I have never claimed the truth of the following statement:
No person identical to Mike G. is a philosopher.
Nor have I claimed the truth of the following statement:
No philosopher is a person identical to Mike G.
Come to think of it, aren't those two statements equivalent in meaning?
Walter O.
Chief Secretary,
Project for Reasonable Cultural Accomodation
Montreal, QC
Canada
Quoting Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
WO:
> It is false that rabbits are hypersexual.
Because there's no such thing as hypersexual.
And you said I was no philosopher.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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> Conceptual analysis to the rescue:
>
It is true that they are
> hyper-reproductive. (For the possibility that neither statement is T
> or F,
> I
> defer to the conceptual probings of our own Eric Dean.)
>
>
>
> WCO
> Balliol College
> Oxford, Ontario
>
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> I too have often heard this expression, and that is what I assumed
>> Robert
>> meant in his comments about minks.
>>
>> But whether it's true, I don't know. I've not raised minks. I've
>> raised
>> rabbits and they are indeed hypersexual.
>>
>> yrs,
>> andreas
>> www.andreas.com
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Robert Paul" <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>> > I was thinking of the expression 'fucks like a mink,' which is at
>> > least
>> > as
>>
>> > old as my high school days. It was usually said (hopefully but
>> > without
>> > evidence) of some girl: 'She fucks like a mink.'
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