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[alixtii]

A comment at edgeofthewest_feed:

It may be true that, as Anscombe says, “more circumstances are required for [saving the cheerleader] to be [saving the world] than for [saving the cheerleader] just to be [saving the cheerleader”, but it is nevertheless possible that those requisite circumstances do obtain, in which case saving the cheerleader simply is saving the world. Once we see, as Austin might have put it, that the total action in the total situation is the only actual phenomenon which we are engaged in elucidating, concerns such as dana’s, which rely on removing a given action-description from its home in a series of teleologically nested, circumstantially informed descriptions, and critiquing it as not in itself being related to another, are rendered toothless.

Part of an entire thread on whether saving the cheerleader is necessary and/or sufficient for saving the world.

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[slashfairy]

brilliant.