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Defining Words Is Good for Terminology
Dannett: I do think that there's a lot of deep insight to be discovered by just asking questions what do we mean by this word. It used to be the fashion among philosophers that we had to come up with utterly precise necessary and sufficient conditions for each word, he says. Dannett: Narrative theories are a plausible contender for self in some sense over time but they're not as good as hamster theories.