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To: rhema
He can't even do a good job inventing a neologism.

"Anthropocentrism" should have to do with "man-goads" (Greek kentron means "goad" or "sting"--the things Saul is kicking against in Acts 9.5, at least in some manuscripts).

More likely, he's combining a Greek root and a Latin root...a barbarism.

11 posted on 04/15/2006 7:14:46 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
kentron can be acceptably translated as "center." One of Pianka's students, possibly following his teacher, has coined a greater barbarism, "homocentrism."

As for me, give me that old-time humanism.

19 posted on 04/15/2006 3:02:40 PM PDT by Dumb_Ox (http://kevinjjones.blogspot.com)
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