Ernest André Gellner (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a philosopher and social anthropologist, cited as one of the world's "most vigorous intellectuals."
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Primitive man has lived twice: once in and for himself, and the second time for us, in our reconstruction.
[I am a humble adherent of]...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.
The idea that some of the members of the smooth, bland variety of second generation of linguistic philosophers undergo ”perplexity”, let alone intellectual cramp, has an element of high comedy.