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Published · transcript-backedKwame Anthony Appiah: belief
31 Jul 2019 Conversations with Tyler Kwame Anthony Appiah on Pictures of the World
“I think my everyday, commonsense, middle-sized-object view of the world is the one that’s least likely to be wrong.”
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- Kwame Anthony Appiah
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- belief
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- 31 Jul 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Of all of your pictures of the world, which one do you think is least wrong? I think my everyday, commonsense, middle-sized-object view of the world is the one that’s least likely to be wrong. It’s least likely to be wrong that there are tables and chairs, the very sort of thing that, in a way, modern philosophy begins by making us wonder whether we know about. Descartes makes us wonder, do we know about these middle-sized everyday dry goods, as one philosopher once called them? That, I think, it’s very unlikely that I’m wrong about, and fortunately — Which is most likely to be wrong? Even if you think it’s true, right? There’s something most likely to be wrong?…
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