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alles anderes ist Menschenwerk

alles anderes ist Menschenwerk phrase: “Everything else is the work of man.” “Everything else is a human construct.”.

Phrase

alles anderes ist Menschenwerk

  1. “Everything else is the work of man.” “Everything else is a human construct.”
    • Yet in its inadequate way it seems to gesture towards something which is closest of all to what has concerned many who have been worried about moral objectivity: the idea that there is no moral order ‘out there’ – out there, in the world, are only the sorts of things and the sorts of facts that...1972, Bernard Williams, Morality (1993 Canto edition), chapter 2: “Subjectivism: First thoughts”, pages 14–15
    • It would help overthrow the pernicious chauvinistic idea that, apart from certain elementary facts, Alles anderes ist Menschenwerk, all necessity, all intensionality, all value.1980, Don S. Mannison, Michael A. McRobbie, R. Routley, Richard Sylvan, editors, Environmental Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences Canberra Department of Philosophy, →ISBN, page 187, →ISBN

Origin of alles anderes ist Menschenwerk

A corruption of German mathematician Leopold Kronecker's finite dictum “die ganzen Zahlen hat Gott gemacht; alles andere ist Menschenwerk” : “God made the integers; everything else is the work of man”. The reason for the addition of an "s" to "andere" ("anderes" is grammatically incorrect and not present in the German phrase) is unclear.

Questions about alles anderes ist Menschenwerk

What does alles anderes ist Menschenwerk mean?
Alles anderes ist Menschenwerk means “Everything else is the work of man.” “Everything else is a human construct.”.
What part of speech is alles anderes ist Menschenwerk?
Alles anderes ist Menschenwerk is a phrase.

Words near alles anderes ist Menschenwerk in the dictionary

  1. Allerston
  2. Allerton
  3. Allerton Mauleverer
  4. Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton
  5. Allerum
  6. alles anderes ist Menschenwerk
  7. allescheriasis
  8. Allesley
  9. allesthesia
  10. Allestree
  11. allethrin

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