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The Anatomy of “Autonomy” (Whatever that may Mean): A Reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

D. C. M. Platt
D. C. M. Platt*
Affiliation:
St. Antony's College, Oxford
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Would I be wrong in detecting a whiff of odium scholasticum? I am clearly not popular for poking fun at the language of modern social science, but I remain utterly unrepentant. It reminds me too forcibly of Section E, Umbugotology and Ditchwateristics, of Dickens' Second Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything. But worse, in my paper I “ideate” some fanciful notions on autonomy.

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Research Article
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , 1980 , pp. 147 - 150
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Copyright © 1980 by Latin American Research Review