Avrum was there in the audience, I believe, in Berkeley on the afternoon in 1941 when, in conformity with the law subsequently enu...nciated by Murphy, what could go wrong, epistemologically, did. G.E. Moore was delivering the Howison Lecture in Wheeler Auditorium, which had a handsome coffered ceiling inset with glass panels. Giving a local angle to his defence of common sense, Moore declared that among the things he knew there and then was that light from the sun was streaming through the roof. Most in the audience were aware, however, that the glass panels were diffusers for electrical illumination; the roof of the building was solid and opaque. Someone had the temerity to point this out to Moore in the question period. He responded, "Oh dear me!" and went on to the next question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river; there, My music playing far off, I will betray... Tawny-finned fishes; my bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, "Ah, ha! y' are caught."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The twelve Cells for Incorrigibles ... are also carved out of the solid rock hill. On the walls of one of the cells human "liberty..." is clearly inscribed, with the "liberty" in significant quotation marks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the Brazos Freeze solid! And the Wabash turn to a leaden... Cinder of ice! The Marañon is too tepid, we must Is freezing slowly in the blasts. The black Yonne Congeals nicely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But to him The love was a solid object, like a partly unpacked trunk,... As it was then, which is different now when remembered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the l...ie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a mistake, to think the same thing affects both sight and touch. If the same angle or square, which is the object of touch, ...be also the object of vision, what should hinder the blind man, at first sight, from knowing it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »