Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mmar From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Re: freedom and unpredictability Message-ID: <769@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 05:16:17 EDT Article-I.D.: sphinx.769 Posted: Thu Jul 4 05:16:17 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 05:39:27 EDT References: <325@spar.UUCP> <27500082@ISM780B.UUCP> <1123@pyuxd.UUCP> <541@umcp-cs.UUCP>, <1151@pyuxd.UUCP> Organization: U Chicago -- Linguistics Dept Lines: 14 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. -- -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mmar