Quote of the day
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
G. E. M. Anscombe
![G. E. M. Anscombe](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: March 18, 1919
Died: January 5, 2001 (aged 81)
Bio: Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, usually cited as G. E. M. Anscombe, was a British analytic philosopher. She wrote on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and ethics.
Known for:
- Human life, action and ethics
- Ethics, religion, and politics (1981)
- An introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus (1959)