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Modern Philosophy1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2009

Jonathan Harrison
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There is hardly any view so paradoxical that some philosopher somewhere or other has not propounded it. That everything is air, fire, water; that the world contains nothing but atoms and the void; that nothing (that is, pace Sartre, not anything) exists; that we know nothing; that the world is an idea in the mind of God; that matter does not exist; that the absolute does exist and that everything else is only appearance; that there is no past and no future; that what seems to be reality is an illusion; that propositions about the world that we have neither been able to establish nor refute are neither true nor false; that truth is relative, and that all matter is just a hologram in a one-dimensional space, is just a selection from such paradoxical contentions.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 65 , October 2009 , pp. 71 - 92
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2009

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2 See my ‘The Importance of Being Important’ (1978).