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Reasons and Decisions
Author(s) -
SCANLON T. M.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2006.tb00599.x
Subject(s) - phrase , epistemology , philosophy , linguistics
The central notion of Gibbard's splendid book, Thinking How to Live , is the idea of something's being “the thing to do.” In ordinary English, the phrase, “X is the thing to do” can express either a judgment:
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