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Philosophy and the Understanding of Ignorance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Bernard Williams
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Extract

Our subject is what we do not know; and this is a meeting under the auspices of philosophy—a meeting, indeed, designed to advance UNESCO's programme in philosophy. The conjunction of this subject and these auspices already confronts us with certain questions. How is philosophy related to ignorance?

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Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 43 , Issue 169 , March 1995 , pp. 23 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © 1995 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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Notes

1. I owe this argument to T. Williamson, who develops it in a more precise and richer form in his book Vagueness, London, 1995.