[lit-ideas] Re: Can You Imagine 2 + 2 = 5?
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:26:38 -0330
A film I often show in my moral ed class is *Twelve Angry Men.* Partly for the
belief/knowledge distinction, but also for the should/ought distinction. Highly
recommended. But get the original with Henry Fonda et al. (Yes, I know it's no
longer a "film." Oxford is too much with us. Did I say that?)
Walter O.
Never intentionally making anything up.
Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
> > I saw the knowledge/belief distinction used in real (i.e.
> > nonphilosophical) life when in a film when a prosecutor asked a witness,
> > 'Do you KNOW, Mr. Smith, or do you only BELIEVE?' All parties (well, it
> > was a film after all), seemed to understand the distinction.
>
> Pls delete second 'when.'
>
> RP
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