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A Note on Overapologizing
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 87, Number 4, Winter 2020
- pp. 887-895
- 10.1353/sor.2020.0068
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Abstract:
The article argues that many apologies or demands for apologies of harms in the distant past are both metaphysically absurd and pernicious in their consequences. Such cases of overapologizing are contrasted with the more familiar cases of underapologizing.