When one edits a piece, one needs to be fast, accurate, and artistic. Two words I wrote a few weeks ago found their way into a re-publication in the USA this week, where an adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury panned them! I had referred to Francis Schaeffer as a "philosophical theologian". While my name wasn't on the article, those two words were mine. I tried the Mark Anthony response: "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." Thankfully they aren't words one can't relinquish. OBSERVATION: In introducing people, in philosophical writing, we generally try to refer to them in a meaningful way. So, for example, referring to "Socrates" or "the philosopher Socrates" would not quite be enough, but one would add something more descriptive.
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