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A comment on It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people act as they do. Parent comment

Re:It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people ac... by amasad on Monday June 19, 2017 @11:24PM (#14591976)
I tend to agree with you -- the universe can't be so lazy as to generate such a useless string of words that is your comment. For the definition I refer you to introductory philosophy texts.
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Re:It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people ac... by taneq on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:04AM (#14592330)
> For the definition I refer you to introductory philosophy texts.

Because that's the definition that everyone is using in this kind of free-form conversation? Nah. If we were all using the same definition, it wouldn't generate this much discussion.

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Re:It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people ac... by amasad on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:33AM (#14592412)
We're commenting on an article by a philosopher about an advanced text about human behavior by a top scholar that is also making claims about philosophy. Surely, I can't be faulted for assuming some competency in basic philosophy in the discussion.
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