[lit-ideas] Re: Man Is The Only Animal That ...
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:38:24 -0700
"Man is the only animal that wipes his arse."
Anyone who has a dog and has spent time cleaning those little brown streaks
from his carpet knows that isn't true.
Lawrence
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"makes grammatical mistakes."
writes Wittgenstein (PI, s. 67).
But, as Geary notes, few other animals speak, to start with.
I'm collecting dicta on "man is the only animal that ..." -- the point: to
illustrate Aristotle's idea of the "idion".
Man is the only animal that wipes his arse.
Man is the only animal that writes and reads pornography.
Etc.
J. L. S.
Bordighera
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