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Episode 88: G.E.M. Anscombe: Should We Use Moral Language?

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The Last Term in a Series of Four Intentions

The last paragraph in which she's gone through and she has four different descriptions of the same action. So we're in 26, right? Yeah, it's worth the end of 26 and I was just going to read that. She then says, so there is one action with four descriptions, each dependent on wider circumstances and each related to the next as descriptions of means to end. And this intention so to speak swallows up all the preceding intentions with which earlier members of the series were done. The mark of this swallowing up is that it is not wrong to give D as the answer to the question why about A.

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