Author
Paul R. Goldin
Year
2005
Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press
Language
English
Pages
19
ISBN
978-0-82482-842-4
Last Update
21-May-2026
Keywords
Philosophy
Let us suppose that two men who otherwise engage in no “social relation”—for example, two uncivilized men of different races, or a European who encounters a native in darkest Africa—meet and “exchange” two objects. We are inclined to think that a mere description of what can be observed during this exchange—muscular movements and, if some words were “spoken,” the sounds which, so to say, constitute the “matter” or “material” of the behavior—would in no sense comprehend the “essence” of what happens. This is quite...
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