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Weaving Seamless Webs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Ruthanna Putnam
Ruthanna Putnam
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Wellesley College
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On a hot sleepy summer day an old truck rattles along a dusty road. A turnip falls off the truck, the truck does not stop. Perhaps the old man who drives the truck does not know that the turnip fell off, or perhaps he does not care. He values his time or his ease more than he values the I turnip. We, who know not only that turnips are nourishing but that many people go hungry, may say that the man ought to have stopped to pick up the turnip.

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Philosophy , Volume 62 , Issue 240 , April 1987 , pp. 207 - 220
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1987

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10 Work on this paper was supported in part by a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for 1982–1983.