Bookmarks: Delemmas
After reading [Gilbert Ryle] for the first time, I felt emboldened and frightened; the world did not contain a "theory of everything" awaiting our discovery. The possibilities for understanding our world are infinite, and the freedom to choose means the freedom to misunderstand and, ultima...
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| Published in: | New Statesman 2002, Vol.15 (689), p.57 |
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| Format: | Review |
| Language: | eng |
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| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | After reading [Gilbert Ryle] for the first time, I felt emboldened and frightened; the world did not contain a "theory of everything" awaiting our discovery. The possibilities for understanding our world are infinite, and the freedom to choose means the freedom to misunderstand and, ultimately, the freedom to fail. On my wall, I have a reproduced portrait of [Samuel Beckett] by Tom Phillips. Actually, it is a portrait of the back of Beckett's head. |
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| ISSN: | 1364-7431 1758-924X |