Talk:Michael Dummett

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[edit] Including Gareth Evans

"The book was instrumental in the rediscovery of Frege's work, and influenced a whole generation of British philosophers, including Gareth Evans" - This is an odd sentence. For one thing, it seems reasonable to assume Evans was more influenced by studying under Dummett than by this particular book. Moreover, the singling out of Evans is itself jarring and redundant anyway as Evans is already listed as being influenced by Dummett (do we need a separate category for 'very influenced' into which we put Evans, Wright, Peacocke and all Dummett's other students?) I've removed the sentence, I hope uncontroversially. 128.232.243.176 (talk) 18:48, 31 March 2008 (UTC)