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You seem to be implying that philanthropists who don't do naming rights only give smaller donations. Any evidence to back that up? If Philanthropist A donates
by burntwater 9y ago
You seem to be implying that philanthropists who don't do naming rights only give smaller donations. Any evidence to back that up?
If Philanthropist A donates $10 million and asks for his name on the building, while Philanthropist B donates $10 million and requests no name on the building, I will absolutely have much more respect for Philanthropist B.
- dsacco 9y ago> You seem to be implying that philanthropists who don't do naming rights only give smaller donations. No, I’m not. I constructed extreme upper and lower bounds as a baseline for comparing axioms. That was the purpose of my reference to the apocryphal, “now we’re just haggling over price” quote.
- burntwater 9y agoAxioms that don't exist in the comment you replied to, so I'm unsure why you're bringing them up here.
- dsacco 9y agoOf course they do. Axioms are inherent to all positive statements, even if they’re implicit. And you can’t construct (coherent) normative statements without positive ones.