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More about Acorns

Dear Sir,

I am grateful to the two writers who replied to my piece about oaks and acorns. With Mr. Fisher, who says that the argument is religious or theological rather than philosophical, I have in a sense no quarrel, though of course his claims will cut no ice with those who do not subscribe to a belief in the soul’s immortality. I notice too that he describes the foetus as a potential soul rather than a soul simpliciter. Perhaps then his position too is vulnerable to the objection that potential souls are not souls and we need extra argument to persuade us that they should be treated as though they already were.

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