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Naming Things in a New World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Filoteo Samaniego
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The distance, as the crow flies, between the two poles can be covered in twenty hours. Thanks to cartography, telecommunications and the precise measurement of distance, we have exhaustive knowledge of the globe. Nevertheless, we are still so removed from each other that everything, or almost everything, remains to be discovered. Just as the past is not clear to us when it takes the historical route, the present brings us no understanding of human ways. The more we advance in knowledge the more proof we have, as Pascal said, that we know nothing.

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Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 27 , Issue 106 , June 1979 , pp. 90 - 109
Copyright
Copyright © 1979 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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28 I bid.

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