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... namely , the successor of the successor of 1 , namely , 3. This , too , accords very nicely with our sense that , when we add a number other than o to a given number , we are adding something to it . That comes to saying that the number ...
... namely , the successor of the successor of 1 , namely , 3. This , too , accords very nicely with our sense that , when we add a number other than o to a given number , we are adding something to it . That comes to saying that the number ...
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... namely , that a perceptual proposition is corrigible for anyone . Consequently , given the criterion of in- corrigible knowledge ( premise ( 6 ) ) , a man would know that a perceptual proposition was true only if he could deduce it from ...
... namely , that a perceptual proposition is corrigible for anyone . Consequently , given the criterion of in- corrigible knowledge ( premise ( 6 ) ) , a man would know that a perceptual proposition was true only if he could deduce it from ...
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... namely , the person I am observing , is in pain . But I do not know this incorrigibly . No behavioral evidence now available to me entails that I cannot be mistaken in believing that somebody is now in pain . But there is another way in ...
... namely , the person I am observing , is in pain . But I do not know this incorrigibly . No behavioral evidence now available to me entails that I cannot be mistaken in believing that somebody is now in pain . But there is another way in ...
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PRELIMINARY EXPLANATIONS ON THE NATURE | 3 |
THE ARGUMENT WITH CEPHALUS | 36 |
THE ARGUMENT WITH THRASYMACHUS | 46 |
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