timtyler comments on 'Is' and 'Ought' and Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 06 July 2011 05:18:40PM *  0 points [-]

Similar is the Dawkins distinction between designed and designoid objects. Personally I was OK with "teleonomy" and "designed". Biologists get pushed into this sort of thing by the literal-minded nit-pickers.