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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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To: Dumb_Ox
You're right...I was using the old-time Intermediate Liddell & Scott Greek-English Lexicon and should have read through to the end of the entry for kentron.

Still, "anthropocentrism" is a neologism. Usually, whatever it is, the Greeks had a word for it, but I can't think of what word they might have used if they wanted to express this idea.

20 posted on 04/15/2006 4:14:32 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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