In the opening paragraph of “Self-Reliance,” Emerson writes, “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due […]
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Perspective as a Metaphor in Philosophy
A philosophical problem has the form: ‘I don’t know my way about’ (Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations §123). Gilbert Ryle begins his 1949 book, The Concept of Mind with a metaphor: “many people can talk sense with concepts,” he writes, “but cannot talk sense about them; they know by practice how to […]