The Accidental Philosophical Lexicon

Larry Laudan (UNAM) writes:

A couple of days ago, I was forwarding a long list of philosophers to a friend.  My spell checker in Mozilla Thunderbird was recently installed (and thus still virginal).  Here are some of the more bizarre corrections it proposed (occasionally it produced several intriguing alternatives):

 

Buechner         Muchness        Buccaneer

Feyerabend      Considerably   Imponderable  Federated

Hintikka           Antiknocks     Skintight          Intakes

Lakatos            Krakatoa's       Lactose

Nagel               Bagel               Angel               Navel

Ockham           Jackhammer

Schlick             Schlock            Schtick

Parmenides      Disbarments    Promenades

Jowett             Towelette

Plotinus           Guillotines

Sextus Empiricus   Textures    Sixties empiricism

Avenarius        Aquariuses

Cassirer            Brassiere

Dilthey            Filthy               Dilute

Feuerbach        Paperback

Gadamer          Daydreamer     Cadaver

Horkheimer      Alzheimer's

von Kleist         Pleistocene

Meineke            Neckerchief    Menace

Meinong          Tiptoeing

Natorp             Vibrator

Radbruch          Debauchery

von Schlegel      Phlegmatic

Tugendhat        Halogenated

Vaihinger          Fingernails

Weininger        Mudslinger

Anaximander   Gerrymander

Anaximenes     Proximateness

Anscombe       Uncombed

Boutroux         Monstrous

Brentano          Repentance

Condillac         Vacillation

Neurath           Accurate

Schleiermacher   Supermachine

Voegelin          Hegelian

Wollaston        Gladstone

The obvious moral: don’t trust your spell checker!