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3459 | You can only know the limits of knowledge if you know the other side of the limit [Searle] |
Full Idea: To know the limits of knowledge, we would have to know both sides of the limit. | |
From: John Searle (The Rediscovery of the Mind [1992], Ch. 1.V.6) |
8141 | He that does evil has not seen God [John] |
Full Idea: He that doeth evil hath not seen God. | |
From: St John (25: Third Epistle of John [c.90], 11) | |
A reaction: This gives God a role striking similar to Plato's Form of the Good. Plato thought the Good was prior to the gods, but he gives the good a quasi-religious role. I say we would only be inspired by the sight of God if we already had a moral sense. |