This is actually quite a dumb quote. ;) You won't observe a cat weep because, being a nonhominid, they do not use gushing tear ducts to express distress. They use wauls. "I have never seen a human waul; perhaps it wauls inwardly."
--- On Thu, 5/28/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>
> One of my favourite quotes:
>
> Man is said to be a rational animal. I do not know why he
> has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. More
> often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps
> it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also
> inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the 2nd degree. --
> Alasdair Macintyre.
>
> --ravi
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