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>From: todd@ai10.elcom.nitech.ac.jp (Todd Law)
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Subject: Re: Viruses: alive?
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In article <63531@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:

>>>>Who says that even biological viruses are alive?
>>
>>>My Collins English Dictionary gives the definition of 'organism' as
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>>Philosophy is not done by quoting dictionaries.
>>-- 
>>-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)


The question was "Who says...." and I gave an answer as "So-and-so says...",
which was direct and pertinent.

So how do you do philosophy?  Seems to me that definitions are a 
fundamental part of philosophy (and dictionaries are just full of them).
I'd like to see you get very far without them.  Suggestions?
Constructive criticism?
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Todd Law
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