Re: "Found: the human brain's moral engine"

Paul Dillon (dillonph who-is-at northcoast.com)
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 07:12:47 -0700

Phil,

I see.

W.V. Quine, British empiricist philosopher and logician, famous for (among
other things), posing a problem called "quining"; i.e., sentences of the
structure:

"is not a sentence" is not a sentence,

these can be sung to a good Minnesota positivist polka beat. Makes one fear
the day when mailing lists no longer require reading, we'll simply upload
messages as to an answering machine.

which is almost as bad as being one's own grandpa or 3+3=5 which happens
when I have three children and my partner has three children and together we
have 5 children.

Paul