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false thesis that what we call error is not outright false belief, In this matter, I see Spinoza as up to his neck in error,
but rather a kind of ignorance; and that fact, taken on its and yet as gloriously shining with insight and intellectual
own, might suggest that the man is simply incompetent. If we integrity. And I have learned a lot about belief from thinking
add his definition of truth in terms of agreement between idea about his failures with it. This is the only way I know to
and object, he looks not just incompetent but stubborn: why learn from Spinoza trying to pin down what he thought,
did he retain a doctrine of truth that had that consequence? and wrestling with him to find out his deepest reasons for
Throw in the material about the indirectly-of relation and the thinking it.
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They are expounded in my Linguistic Behaviour, pp.51f.
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