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Entirely independent of the primary theme of this discussion, I found this statement from Haidt to be quite grating: > "The telos of a knife is to cut, the tel
by SeanLuke 4y ago
Entirely independent of the primary theme of this discussion, I found this statement from Haidt to be quite grating:
> "The telos of a knife is to cut, the telos of medicine is to heal, and the telos of a university is truth."
Since when is "truth" a verb?
- bobbylarrybobby 4y agohttps://help.truthsocial.com/how-do-you-retruth/ https://help.truthsocial.com/how-do-you-retruth/
- dash2 4y agoIt's not. Instead, the infinitives of "cut" and "heal" are being used as noun phrases. The grammar is correct, and the switch if anything makes the sentence more punchy.
- FerociousTimes 4y agoI would have preferred and opted for "to teach" instead, or probably the more emphatic yet more problematic "to teach the truth" but the sentence structure seems sound to me grammatically speaking.