[lit-ideas] Re: Can You Imagine 2 + 2 = 5?
- From: "Phil Enns" <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:44:44 +0700
Walter O. wrote:
"The distinction between certainty and knowledge is indeed an
interesting one. Wittgenstein spent a considerable amount of time in
Cambridge and at Malcolm's house in [insert the correct American city]
trying to show that Moore's hand-waving proved nothing. Hence, Moore's
'proof of an external world' was unsuccessful."
It seems to me that Wittgenstein aimed to show that it made no sense
to talk of a proof, successful or otherwise, of an external world.
One has to, as it were, stand somewhere to get any argument regarding
an external world off the ground.
Sitting in Indonesia,
Phil Enns
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