Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA07422 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:28:51 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745C30@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Labels for memes Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:27:50 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
<When I said "Similarity with causation is replication" I was taking
> it forgranted that the similarity has to be between cause and effect,
> not merely between two effects with the same cause. I can't comment
> on Sperber's view, having only the foregoing to go on. Time to look up
> Darwinizing Culture at Amazon... I don't suppose the Introduction is
> online anywhere...>
>
Fair enough on the first bit. On the second bit, I suppose there
may be extracts from the book at the publisher's website (it's an Oxford
University Press book), but I don't know.
Vincent
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