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  • Nor is there any absolute fact to scrute about the denotation of the native's words or the contours of his worldview.

    Relativism Swoyer, Chris 2003

  • If you want to be sure though, call SAS and ask. scrute has it right, from my experience.

    Ask MetaFilter pianohands 2010

  • je regarde la mer du haut de mon jardin et je scrute l'horizon....

    Archive 2009-12-01 lilasvb 2009

  • je regarde la mer du haut de mon jardin et je scrute l'horizon....

    back to work lilasvb 2009

  • It is not that the native -- or anyone else's -- mind is inscrutable, Quine tells us, but that there is simply “nothing to scrute” (1969, p. 5; cf.p. 27 and

    Relativism Swoyer, Chris 2003

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  • Coined by chained_bear on pimpquin.

    December 18, 2008

  • Ooh! I got credit. :)

    December 18, 2008