[lit-ideas] Re: Can You Imagine 2 + 2 = 5?
- From: palma@xxxxxxxx
- To: joerg benesch <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>, jls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx, joerg benesch <jgruel@xxxxxxxxxx>, John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>, lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>, Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>, wokshevs@xxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:04:19 -0500 (EST)
this is traditional behavioristic mumbo jumbo.
I am rather, even quite, certain that I do not have siblings on Venus.
Now this the ground of which action, pray tell?
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Tue, 20 Nov 2007
wokshevs@xxxxxx 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. 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.
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> Walter O.
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> Quoting "Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx" <ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>:
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> > This whole conversation plays really strangely if you watched Nineteen-
> > eighty-four last night.
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> > ----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?
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> > >> Can you _know_ that 2 + 2 = 5?
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> > Certainly. I've seen people "clearly know" (not just imagine) an
> > incorrect
> > number.
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> > yrs,
> > andreas
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