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.