'For the person or persons that hold dominion, can no more combine with the keeping up of majesty the running with harlots drunk or naked about the streets, or the performances of a stage player, or the open violation or contempt of laws passed by themselves than they can combine existence with non-existence'.

- Benedict de Spinoza. Political Treatise. 1677.



Monday, May 17, 2010

on certainty 462

30.3.
462. Why doesn’t Moore produce as one of the things he knows, for example, that in such-and such a part of England there is a village called so-and-so? In other words: why doesn’t he mention a fact that is known to him and not to every one of us?



Moore’s trick is to connect with common epistemological prejudice and ignorance –

and re-brand it as reason and  knowledge


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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