"Smith has beautiful handwriting, and his English is grammatical."
So, 'Smith is no good at philosophy.'
"Mind, I don't mean to imply that he is no good at philosophy"
"Extraordinary tutorial behaviour, but otherwise Oxonianly impeccable, if perhaps unpersuasive if other collecters mind to reason with the meta-language."
Turpius esse dicebat Favorinus philosophus exigue atque frigide laudari, quam inseotanter et graviter vituperari." Aulus Gellius. Noctes Atticae, XIX., 3, 1.
So the concept IS philosophical!
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