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- From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
- Subject: Re: Property Rights (was re: Progress: The New Gr
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:31:01 GMT
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- In article <Bx78q5.uv@ccu.umanitoba.ca> feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld) writes:
- ...
- >Words mean no more than we want them to mean; Humpty Dumpty is the
- >authority here. So, if you, or you and your friends, wish to impose
- >an idiocentric meaning on "property", well, God bless! says I.
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- Really? So if I want "dog" to mean the same thing as "cat", then that furry
- guy with whiskers sitting on my feet is an Alsatian? I don't think that the
- meaning of words is _that_ elastic.
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- >For the rest, consult a good dictionary: legal, philosophical, or
- >desk-top, to find all the objectivity the matter admits of. By
- >convention, property is yours to alienate.
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- Funny, I find dictionaries to be remarkably little help when discussing
- philosophical issues.
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