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Response: The OAC’s Name

Hopefully this new post will not bring to an abrupt end the discussion that continued in the comments to the last post. One of the administrators of the “Open Anthropology Cooperative” has issued the OAC’s first coherent statement regarding “the name issue,” which as I have explained is about much more than just a name. […]

The Particulars of a Name

“To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.” –Bertrand Russell (p. 182) “The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.” –Aldous Huxley (source) As Huxley also said, “facts do not cease to exist because they are […]

Name that Scientist!

Imagine, 2008, and some foreigner travels to Barbados, and right under Barbadian noses he picks up the “world’s smallest snake,” known to native Barbadians since there have been native Barbadians, and he proclaims — without a metal helmet, bible, and cross — that he has discovered the snake, and that he will name it. The […]