[lit-ideas] Re: Can You Imagine 2 + 2 = 5?
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx" <ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:54:43 -0330
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. What has emerged as *On Certainty* claims that certainty is not
an epistemic concept. To be "certain" is not to have knowledge of any kind - be
it propositional or procedural. Rather, "certainty" is a ground of action.
Walter O.
MUN
Quoting "Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx" <ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> This whole conversation plays really strangely if you watched Nineteen-
> eighty-four last night.
>
> ----Original Message----
> From: andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Nov 20, 2007 11:52
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Can You Imagine 2 + 2 = 5?
>
> >> Can you _know_ that 2 + 2 = 5?
>
> Certainly. I've seen people "clearly know" (not just imagine) an
> incorrect
> number.
>
> yrs,
> andreas
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