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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Dawkins channels Wittgenstein

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that the mere presence in the dictionary of a word like "living" does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.
...universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense.