ata comments on Proposal: Anti-Akrasia Alliance - Less Wrong

18 Post author: DanArmak 01 January 2011 09:52PM

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Comment author: ata 05 January 2011 05:25:41AM 0 points [-]

If I read things correctly, "a-krasia", "hypo-crisy", and "demo-cracy" are all etymologically related via some sort of root word that has something to do with "ruling".

"Akrasia" and "democracy" (etc.) are indeed related through that root, but not "hypocrisy".