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Article 3185 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: dlyndes@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (David Lyndes)
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Subject: Re: Viruses: alive?
Message-ID: <1992Jan27.214914.8290@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
Date: 27 Jan 1992 21:49:14 GMT
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In article <63531@netnews.upenn.edu>, weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
|> In article <TODD.92Jan23223358@ai12.elcom.nitech.ac.jp>, todd@ai12 (Todd Law) writes:
|> >>Who says that even biological viruses are alive?
|> 
|> >My Collins English Dictionary gives the definition of 'organism' as
|> 
|> Philosophy is not done by quoting dictionaries.
|> -- 
|> -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)

Doesn't John Austin count as a philosopher?  As I recall, you can summarize
Austin's philosophy by pointing at the Oxford English Dictionary. :-)
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