> And when was the last time you heard of a school of philosophers
> *describe
> themselves* as postmodernists holding silly positions?
I haven't. Who would describe themselves that way? But we can't always take people's self-descriptions as gospel -- otherwise, Shrub would really be a "compassionate conservative."
> You read like you're channeling Andre' Kukla. :-)
Don't know him. I'm not completely conversant with all the literature in this area, because it's not high on my priority list of ways to spend my free time, and I don't have a lot of such time.
> And don't even get me started on the amenability of the philosophers/no
> philosophers distinction to sorites paradoxe[s]........:-)
Sure, there are "borderline cases," but if you take philosophy as the tradition beginning with Socrates and running through you-know-who to folks like Moore, Russell, and Davidson, I think it's fairly clear who is a philosopher and who isn't. :-)
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________
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