[lit-ideas] Re: Can You Imagine 2 + 2 = 5?
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:35:20 -0330
Well it's about time! Shelve Joe Wittgenstein for the time being. After all
these months, we demand an update, bigtime. Where in Indonesia are you? Which
university? What are you teaching? What can we send you? Do tell all.
(I recall that in Toronto you and Erin ordered some Indonesian noodle dishes. To
accompany your 15 yr. old Glenliver. Oy! Surely you didn't end up there simply
for the cuisine.)
Great to hear from you again. Share when you can.
Walter O
MUN
Quoting Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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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