Tag: Typical Assumptions

• April 17, 2014

  ‘If the world is not fallen, then it is not in need of saving…’

  Here is an excerpt from a post-philosophical conversation note I wrote to one philosophical friend today. All of the assumptions below are typically made. My tacit suggestion is that they amount to what Gilbert Ryle famously terms ‘category mistakes.’ Of course, some things are problems; but, logically speaking, a human life cannot be a problem. It…