[lit-ideas] Alice in Wonderland
- From: jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 23:13:45 -0400
Truth, in the interesting sense usually takes a that clause:
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Odd.
I think that Liddell may have had something other in mind when he named his
little daughter Alice (Liddell). It's Greek for "Aletheia", i.e. Truth, Veritas.
In "Actions and Events" (PPQ 1986), Grice says that Reality (but it would well
be Alice, i.e. Aletheia, i.e. Truth) which is _too modest_, and needs to veil
herself.
Interestingly, Rawls speaks of veil of ignorance.
Of course, Aletheia, is indeed Unveiled. And the Wonderland must be Lewis
Carroll's _wonder_ at unveiling her (as he did, in many photographs he took).
Cheers,
JL
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