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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Re: freedom and unpredictability
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Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 05:16:17 EDT
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Keywords: external

What is the obsession with dictionaries????

A dictionary is useful for a number of things, including getting
a general idea of the meaning of an unfamiliar word.  Sure, fine.
But when you're dealing with a perfectly familiar word, and
it becomes the keyword in an argument, the dictionary is no authority
at all.
Part of the business of doing philosophy is working out what it would
be reasonable to treat this or that keyword as meaning.

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            -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago 
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