[lit-ideas] Re: The 'Near-Eastern' influences on the Greek philosophy, sc...

  • From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:59:43 -0700 (PDT)

--- Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   What texts of Avicenna's
> > support
> > it, I have no idea, but neither am I driven to
> doubt the existence of the
> > lost
> > text; for one doubts on the same sorts of grounds
> one believes, and where I
> > have
> > no grounds for belief, I have none for doubt
> either. 
> 
> This strikes me as sophistry [and fairly Wittgtn.
> sounding to boot]. I can
> have grounds for doubting x while lacking grounds
> for believing x. 

R.P. did not say that "one doubts on the same grounds
one believes" but "on the same sort of grounds."
(presumably of evidence) This banal observation is
therefore unnecessary.

O.K.


        
                
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