Talk:G. E. M. Anscombe

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According to a possibly apocry­phal tale, Anscombe once said to A. J. Ayer: “If you didn’t talk so quickly, people wouldn’t think you were so clever”; to which Ayer replied: “If you didn’t talk so slowly, people wouldn’t think you were so profound.”

mentioned here online: http://www.unav.es/filosofia/jmtorralba/dolan_on_g.e.m._anscombe.htm among other places.