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Hitchen's failure to understand Comparisons
When anyone asks you to compare two things A and B, they're always asking you to compare them relative to some criteria X. A comparison allows us to understand some quality of A by likening it to some quality in B. And so we need to be very careful in understanding comparisons to understand what that quality that is being highlighted is. In the ...
Posted to Fighting Words by meses on March 25, 2008