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One World
Author(s) -
Moore A. W.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1468-0378
pISSN - 0966-8373
DOI - 10.1111/ejop.12201
Subject(s) - citation , library science , computer science , philosophy
My starting point in this essay is a brief but fascinating section in The Bounds of Sense, in which Strawson discusses a likewise brief but fascinating passage in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. I am referring respectively to Part Two, Chapter III, §8 (which incidentally contains Strawson’s sole reference to Wittgenstein in his entire book—we shall see the significance of this reference in due course) and A216/B263. In the latter Kant writes that “all appearances lie in one nature, and must lie therein,” (ibid.). In the former Strawson asks why we should accept any such conclusion. Why, to appropriate the title of that section, only one objective world