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Ethical Intuitionism II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

J. R. Lucas
J. R. Lucas
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Merton College, Oxford
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South. So we have agreed to bury intuitionism. Well, I dare say it is right. But we ought to bury some of the grave-diggers too. Some of the things that Ross said are no doubt wrong, or at least misleading: but they are a lot less wrong than most of the things said since the war.

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Philosophy , Volume 46 , Issue 175 , January 1971, pp. 1 - 11
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1971

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