I would like to start with an image. It is a well-known image, perhaps overused, but effective nevertheless. Robert Nozick - the figure my paper concentrates upon - also uses it. I refer toNeurath's boat, the image according to which human beings are like sailors on the open sea, living forever in a boat tossed by the waves, devoid of any possibility to call at a port in order to avail of a dry-dock in which the inevitable damage brought about by the long sea voyage through the waves can be repaired. The sailors can do nothing by try to refis sails and mend broken planks while on the open sea, using just the tools and materials they have at hand. As is quite clear, the analogy is between the boat and uman knowledge, the waves and the experience given by the world, the dock and the foundations.

Truth and fallibilism: a dubious combination in Robert Nozick's philosophy / Dell'Utri, Massimo. - In: ANNALI DELLA FACOLTA' DI LINGUE E LETTERATURE STRANIERE DELL'UNIVERSITA' DI SASSARI. - ISSN 1828-5384. - 2:2002 pubbl. 2005(2005), pp. 213-229.

Truth and fallibilism: a dubious combination in Robert Nozick's philosophy

Dell'Utri, Massimo
2005-01-01

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I would like to start with an image. It is a well-known image, perhaps overused, but effective nevertheless. Robert Nozick - the figure my paper concentrates upon - also uses it. I refer toNeurath's boat, the image according to which human beings are like sailors on the open sea, living forever in a boat tossed by the waves, devoid of any possibility to call at a port in order to avail of a dry-dock in which the inevitable damage brought about by the long sea voyage through the waves can be repaired. The sailors can do nothing by try to refis sails and mend broken planks while on the open sea, using just the tools and materials they have at hand. As is quite clear, the analogy is between the boat and uman knowledge, the waves and the experience given by the world, the dock and the foundations.
2005
Truth and fallibilism: a dubious combination in Robert Nozick's philosophy / Dell'Utri, Massimo. - In: ANNALI DELLA FACOLTA' DI LINGUE E LETTERATURE STRANIERE DELL'UNIVERSITA' DI SASSARI. - ISSN 1828-5384. - 2:2002 pubbl. 2005(2005), pp. 213-229.
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