Tom's 'doppelganger'
doppelganger \DOP-uhl-gang-uhr\, noun:
1. A ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
2. Alter ego; double.
To readers of science fiction, the idea of a single atom existing
simultaneously in two states or places is reminiscent of the
supernatural "doppelganger" -- a flesh-and-blood duplicate of one's
self encountered while walking along a street.
-- "Physicists Put Atom in Two Places at Once", New York Times, May
28, 1996
But my primary interest here is not the machinations of science
itself but the fascinating life and times of its dark doppelganger,
the mad scientist, in all his overreaching glory.
-- David J. Skal, Screams of Reason
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Doppelganger is from the German doppel, "double" + Gänger, "goer."
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for doppelganger
Libertarian movement and the whole world is better served by better
advocacy!
-Terry Liberty Parker
PERSONHOOD: Abortion & beyond
at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/message/48172
--- In [email protected], "Thomas L. Knapp"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mark,
>
> > I think I see your point, but I suspect Tom of getting ready to
> > think about starting to prepare to try to attribute rights to
> > fetuses - by first giving them the status of a whole human being,
> > and trying to get us to agree. I know he has claimed a degree of
> > neutrality on the issue, but he has also been critical of
> > abortion elements and is obviously trying to bump up the
> > legal/political status of the fetus. OOH, why argue with him
> > until he goes out on that limb that you describe? OTOH, he is
> > incorrect about the "wholeness" of the fetus, no matter the
> > existence or non-existence of an agenda. (You know me; gotta
> > argue them fine points.)
>
> Mark,
>
> I have not in any way intimated that I am possessed of some kind of
> "neutrality." I am not*. But I'm also not interested in arguing
> abortion _per se_. What I am interested in is improving the quality
of
> argument about abortion from the "pro-choice" side.
>
> My "agenda" is to TRY to get the "pro-choice" side to stop arguing
> from superstitious/religious "Fetus Fairy" premises and to instead
> make logical arguments from factual premises. I have reasons for
> wanting to accomplish this, but those reasons are not related to any
> given outcome of further debate on abortion. They're related to
> improving the quality of libertarian argument, including of the
> "pro-choice" variety.
>
> Regards,
> Tom Knapp
>
> * I am nominally on the "pro-life" side of the issue -- but I just
> don't consider it an "important" issue in the _political_ sense
> insofar as there's no likely constituency waiting for libertarian
> representation on it.
>
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