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From: "Fred E.J. Linton" <fejlinton@usa.net>
To: "categories" <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: re: the definition of "evil"
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:16:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NSKjG-0007Ss-72@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)

After Mike Shulman's remarks beginning with

> It looks to me like there are (at least) two different ideas of "evil"
> floating around.

I'm tempted to ask: which idea(s) of "evil" does 
the notion of a category's being *skeletal* embody?

And is that *really* "evil" in the everyman's sense of the word?

Cheers, -- Fred




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             reply	other threads:[~2010-01-05  3:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-05  3:16 Fred E.J. Linton [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-01-03  7:23 Peter Selinger
2010-01-03 17:10 ` Claudio Hermida
2010-01-03 17:53 ` John Baez
2010-01-04 17:14   ` Michael Shulman
2010-01-04  9:24 ` Urs Schreiber

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