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- Title
The Skies of Dante and Our Skies: A Response to Ilham Dilman.
- Authors
Diamond, Cora
- Abstract
The philosophical image of a 'universe of discourse' can be misleading in the suggestions it carries about how to read Wittgenstein and how to approach the topic of the relation between language and reality. That is what I try to show by examining Ilham Dilman's discussion of medieval cosmology. I sketch an alternative account of the relation between medieval beliefs about the heavens and our astronomical beliefs, and I consider in detail the disagreement between the two accounts.
- Subjects
ASTRONOMY; HEAVEN; BELIEF &; doubt; MEDIEVAL cosmology; DILMAN, Ilham; UNIVERSE
- Publication
Philosophical Investigations, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 3/4, p187
- ISSN
0190-0536
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9205.2012.01478.x