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Steve Yablo

Five Questions

CHAPTER

I Love the Problems, but Do You Have a View About the Unsolvability?

i get the sense that there's something crass about a certain way of proposing that we're on the brink of figuring it all out. So, i mean, sthere's no incoherence in hoping that people don't prematurely answer the questions. But do you have a view about whether the questions are ultimately to be answered? I call it the psychoanalytic standard. It may be that is a regulative ideal you have. You don't want your commitment of the unsolvability. There's a sting thatiea in writing about conceivability and possibility - which with kind of old fashioned concept behind it.

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