Taking Some of the Mystery out of Omissions
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Michael Zimmerman, Professor and Philosophy Pre-Law Concentration Advisor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Philosophers often talk of acts of omission, but such talk is immediately puzzling; for omissions (of all sorts) appear to be paradigms of not-doing rather than doing, even though no omission is merely a not-doing. But, as I shall seek to show, although talk of acts of omission is frequently misleading, it is not altogether inappropriate and is not to be eschewed, as some would argue.
Taking Some of the Mystery out of Omissions
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Southern Journal of Philosophy, 19 (1981): 541-554
- Language: English
- Date: 1981
- Keywords
- acts of omission, paradigms, intentional omissions