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Philosophy

Dworkin

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7. Can philosophers do?

Reply to Sweeney (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 10, 2016, 04:15 PM

Jun 2016

I remember some thing about Nietzsche trying to rescue a horse, and another about Wittgenstein threatening Popper with a poker. Then, there is always the motorcycle maintenance. But, admittedly, it is practically thin gruel overall, apart from the Nazis and Lenin etc.

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