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Ariston
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Rule: within the category given, keep adding to the alphabetical list as long as possible.
Example: Animals
Aardvark; ant; anteater; bat . . . yak; zebra.
Once "bat" had been listed, anything before it (e.g., "antelope") would be off-limits.
Continuation: Whenever nobody can think of a further addition, a new category is chosen.
Nitpicking: Some people or things have multiple names. "Thomas Aquinas," "Aquinas," "Thomas d'Aquino," "d'Aquino," "Thomas of Aquino," "The Angelic Doctor," "Doctor Communis," etc., all refer to the same person. The general guideline in this case is that if a name is used, it cannot be repeated, even with other elements; that is, if "Aquinas" is used, "Thomas Aquinas" is off-limits. Similarly, gratuitous translation is frowned upon. When in doubt, do something else.
Thus, to begin, a category with far too many a's in it:
Philosophers
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Sir Kevin
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Aristotle
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Stetson
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Averroes
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Stetson
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Barthes
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Barnabas62
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Boethius
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Bonaventure
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Pure Sunshine by name, and sometimes by nature.
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snowgoose
Silly goose
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(The Venerable) Bede
(Q: Do theologians count as philosophers?)
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Ariston
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quote:
Originally posted by snowgoose:
(Q: Do theologians count as philosophers?)
Bede would have, if you had slipped him in before Boethius. Also, way to skip all the A's, y'all.
Oh, and:
Buber
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Stetson
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Burke(Edmund)
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Hennah
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Just squeezing in:
Burnyeat
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snowgoose
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quote:
Originally posted by AristonAstuanax:
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Originally posted by snowgoose:
(Q: Do theologians count as philosophers?)
Bede would have, if you had slipped him in before Boethius. Also, way to skip all the A's, y'all.
Oh, and:
Buber
Oops.
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How about Samuel Butler.
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Piglet
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Calvin
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Ariston
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Camus
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Chorister
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Well I was going to post Bultmann, but I'm too late. So just to be bolshy about it, I'm going to post Cupitt instead. Ha! Serves you all right.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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I don't understand this game at all. But that's ok....go right ahead.
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Ariston
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David K. Lewis
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Piglet
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Descartes, obviously. I oink therefore I am.
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snowgoose
Silly goose
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Denis Diderot
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Jahlove
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Originally posted by Pearl B4 Swine:
I don't understand this game at all. But that's ok....go right ahead.
pearlie, you has to add every name you can think of beginning with the current letter in the current category. When names for that letter become exhausted, you start on another letter. E.G. I can't think of anyone else beginning with D in the category of Philosophers so I offer:
Epicurus
(who also happens to be one of my favourite philosophical lads ![[Smile]](smile.gif) )
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Ariston
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Fichte
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snowgoose
Silly goose
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Foucault
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Barnabas62
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Frege
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Ariston
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Gadimer
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snowgoose
Silly goose
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Galileo
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Lyda*Rose
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Gandhi
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Piglet
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Gauss
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Lyda*Rose
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Guatama (Siddhartha)
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Barnabas62
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Hayek - think he slips in.
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Hegel
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Jahlove
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Heidegger (everybody's favourite boozy beggar)
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Ariston
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Hintika
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Piglet
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Hippocrates
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Barnabas62
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Hobbes
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QLib
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Ioannis Kottounios
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Sir Kevin
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quote:
Originally posted by snowgoose:
Galileo
I was always given to understand that he was first and foremost one of the world's leading astronomers.
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Sir Kevin
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Jung?
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Chorister
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quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
quote:
Originally posted by snowgoose:
Galileo
I was always given to understand that he was first and foremost one of the world's leading astronomers.
You will also find him on the list of philosophers - like theologians, there is a lot of overlap.
Kant
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Ariston
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quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
quote:
Originally posted by snowgoose:
Galileo
I was always given to understand that he was first and foremost one of the world's leading astronomers.
Seeing as his official position with the Medici was "court philosopher," physics was, at that time, a branch of philosophy, and that he basically invented the idea that inductive reasoning and observation is sufficient for scientific knowledge, the fact that he's famous as an astronomer and inventor is just icing on the cake.
Oh, and Karl Marx
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Kierkegaard
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QLib
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La Rochefoucauld - can we count him?
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Chorister
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Leibnitz
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Ariston
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(C. I.) Lewis
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Banner Lady
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St.Ignatius Loyola
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Ariston
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Ramon Lull
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QLib
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Nicolo Machiavelli
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Chorister
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Karl Marx
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