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#common-sense
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Moore’s “here is one hand” is not really an argument, and that is exactly why it works
There is a move my best debaters make without ever having heard of G. E. Moore. When the other team builds an elaborate case for a conclusion everyone in the room knows is false, you do not attack the premises one by…
Started by Sam Ellery6 replies -
The incredulous stare is a perfectly respectable argument against modal realism
I have been reading the threads on Lewis and his infinitely many concrete worlds. I am told the standard response, the "incredulous stare", is not an argument, and that Lewis himself said so. I want to defend the stare. Doctors routinely reject…
Started by Alistair Gow5 replies