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Episode 216: Oral Judgments

Very Bad Wizards

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Apologies in Hamlet, Apologies, Forgiveness

apologies often are in this neat little nexis of claiming responsibility for a wrong that you did, but asking for it to be not taken as an offence any more. There is a philosopher that tried to actually, on that basis, say that there is a paradox of apologies and forgiveness. I think though, that, like, the forgiveness part is not a necessary aspect of act apologies, like it would be to be forgiven. And in fact, ik, i ould argue that, h, the better apologies are ones that don't request forgiveness.

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