tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post880484350484445557..comments2023-10-24T03:46:41.971-07:00Comments on Contingencies: Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-2277333626220945692010-06-08T19:57:25.538-07:002010-06-08T19:57:25.538-07:00Yes, there's more to it, and didn't intend...Yes, there's more to it, and didn't intend to make Russell sound quite so philistinish.....but it may have sounded like that.<br /><br /> Tolstoy I m not a big fan of (still working with War and Peace...llike dozen pages a year...in a decade or so I might be finished), but have read Dostoyevsky. It's strange to say Crime and Punishment is merely fictional. <br /><br />So it's Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-2614427236330718052010-06-08T19:29:44.669-07:002010-06-08T19:29:44.669-07:00Good. This connects with Grice in "Vacuous Na...Good. This connects with Grice in "Vacuous Names" and shall see if I can post a post in Grice Club that may relate. It IS a serious topic and I think Currie -- since Gregory Currie wrote some good stuff on this.<br /><br />Also, why we are moved by Anna Karenina. I.e. a truth may be fictional, but are those 'fictional' tears?Luigi Speranzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14910051355425799904noreply@blogger.com