Ha! The reason I remembered the original comment was because, at the time, I wanted to find out who'd said it - it's such a great quote. So I did the usual DDG, then Alexandria, Google Scholar, Dogpile, then Kagi plus a few esoteric search engines and I found nothing. (But there were mentions similar to it when referring to "common law" in England.)
It's frustrating, but as far as search terms go (in the typical tf/idf indexing model), the most unique word is, um, system ... and that doesn't help.
I know only two philosophy people, and I am going to ask them - and get them to ask their friends. Yeah, I shouldn't let stuff like this bug me, but it just does :)
It's frustrating, but as far as search terms go (in the typical tf/idf indexing model), the most unique word is, um, system ... and that doesn't help.
I know only two philosophy people, and I am going to ask them - and get them to ask their friends. Yeah, I shouldn't let stuff like this bug me, but it just does :)