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Rejoinder to Mr. Sosa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2010

Norman Malcolm
Norman Malcolm
Affiliation:
Cornell University
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I believe that Mr. Sosa is right about my example but wrong on the substantive issue; which shows that my example was poorly chosen. If the ugliest Irishman was so ugly that even the Irish were offended, they might form a committee to get rid of him. Suppose he was kidnapped and deposited in New York. If we were informed of all this and also knew that the ugliest Irishman is the Prime Minister, I agree that we should have been given an adequate explanation of why the Prime Minister is in New York.

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Notes—Discussions
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , March 1965 , pp. 424 - 425
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1965

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References

1 See p. 123 of my “Scientific Materialism and the Identity Theory”, Dialogue, (Vol. 3, No. 2), 1964.Google Scholar