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Hare's Impossibilities and the Paradoxicality of Obsessionais

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

G. F. Reed
Affiliation:
York University, Ontario

Extract

A prolonged (obsessive?) professional interest in the problems of obsessional disorder has led me to a consideration of Professor Hare's arguments for prescriptivism. It is perhaps a tribute to the elegance of Hare's argument and the lucidity with which it is presented that the present paper is concerned with the exceptions he cites.

Type
Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1978

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