Excellent Dissection of the Motto: “Small steps toward a much better world”, please read the whole thing,I especially like the last comment of tyler.<\/p>\n
James Hudson, a philosopher and a loyal MR reader (it turns out I already know and admire his work), emails me the following observations:
\nDoes anyone share my feeling that your slogan, \u201cSmall steps toward a much better world,\u201d is odd?
\nBut now it is long and so it goes under the fold…
\nFirst, better than what? I suppose it\u2019s better than the world we have now; but then the \u201cworld\u201d of the slogan is not a whole possible world, which would persist throughout time, but rather a temporal segment or slice of a possible world. We don\u2019t now \u201chave\u201d a whole world; what we have is the present time-slice of the world. Or you might say that what we have is the whole past-and-present–the temporal segment of the world from the Beginning to Now; but this would be less suitable for comparison with what you are striving toward, so I will assume that the present time-slice or \u201cstate-of-affairs\u201d is the intended standard of comparison.
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