Scavenger Hypothesis

Famous quotes containing the words scavenger and/or hypothesis:

“Little scavenger away,
touch not the door,
beat not the portal down.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“The hypothesis I wish to advance is that ... the language of morality is in ... grave disorder.... What we possess, if this is true, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts of which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived. We possess indeed simulacra of morality, we continue to use many of the key expressions. But we have—very largely if not entirely—lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality.”
—Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)