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Discussion: Persons, higher animals and fatal semantic fractures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 August 2013

Rom Harré
Rom Harré*
Affiliation:
Linacre College, Oxford, and Georgetown University, Washington DC
*
harre@georgetown.edu
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Philosophy , Volume 88 , Issue 4 , October 2013 , pp. 607 - 615
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20 ‘People’ sometimes means a collection of persons in the cultural-discursive sense, sometimes it means a collection of human beings, as Hacker points out.

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25 How far down the chain of ‘higher animals’ may we go without falling into anthropomorphism? Surely we must include dogs (though so far as we know Wittgenstein never kept one) and chimpanzees, such as Washoe.