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Thursday February 09, 2006

origin of bright (n)

in critical essays, misattributions show laziness, sloppiness, and undermine the critical effort.

there has now been a number of lightweight reviews of dennett's breaking the spell, where the reviewers did not know where the term bright [noun] came from, could not be bothered to look it up [say, in wikipedia], and have attributed it to dennett. [he wrote a supportive essay about it. others have too...]

the term bright was coined by Paul Geisert and Mynga Futrell.

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