[lit-ideas] Palæo-Griceianism, De-Extinct
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:06:19 -0400 (EDT)
KEYWORD: de-extinction
Experts in bioengineering, zoologists, ethicists and conservationists
recently met in Washington, DC for a public forum on "de-extinction."
In a message dated 4/14/2013 8:18:55 A.M. UTC-02,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes in "Re: will they darken the skies once more?"
Like the passenger pigeon, the Logical Positivist when de-extincted might
face issues over parental control and assistance, but my suspicion is that
their putative father, David Hume, never actually cared that much for them
If I may introduce a topic of my liking, there's also Neo-Kantianism (and
for that matter, neo-Gr*ceans. It was my idea for a while that the use of
"neo-", in neo-Kantianism (or 'neo-Gr*cean') implicated that Kantianism was
extinct. For that reason, I would freely use expressions like
"palaeo-Kantianism"
(or "palaeo-Gr*cean") to refer to the views of the _old_ allegedly extinct
Kant (or Gr*ce).
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I actually think that the verb, 'de-extinct' is an interesting one for
logical analysis.
Suppose we call a passenger pigeon an 'x'. McEvoy will use temporal
subscripts (or indexes) here, and say,
""Ectopistes migratorius" is flying" in time t1<tn
where t1 is a time predating "tn" or 'now'.
Now, the idea that the 'ectopistes migratorius' is _extinct_ then requires
a mere statement of contingent fact to the effect that no Ectopistes
migratorius flies today.
Note that in the metaphorical use that McEvoy gives to 'de-extinct' the
logical formulae are different.
And so on.
Cheers,
Speranza
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