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Ideas of Lewis Carroll (C.Dodgson), by Text

[British, fl. 1865, Mathematics tutor at Oxford, and author of children's fantasies.]

1886 Through the Looking Glass
p.189 p.182 I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people.
     Full Idea: "I see nobody on the road," said Alice. - "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked. ..."To be able to see Nobody! ...Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people."
     From: Lewis Carroll (C.Dodgson) (Through the Looking Glass [1886], p.189), quoted by A.W. Moore - The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics 07.7
     A reaction: [Moore quotes this, inevitably, in a chapter on Hegel] This may be a better candidate for the birth of philosophy of language than Frege's Groundwork.