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7624 | The word 'inconsiderate' nicely shows the blurring of facts and values [Putnam] |
Full Idea: The use of the word 'inconsiderate' seems to me a very fine example of the way in which the fact/value distinction is hopelessly fuzzy in the real world and in the real language. | |
From: Hilary Putnam (Reason, Truth and History [1981]) | |
A reaction: Interesting, but not much of an argument. What would Nietzsche say? Was Agamemnon morally deficient because we might think him 'inconsiderate'? |