"This was our paradox: no course of action could be determined by a rule, because any course of action can be made out to accord with the rule."
Kripke, following David Hume, distinguishes between two types of solution to skeptical paradoxes. Straight solutions dissolve paradoxes by rejecting one (or more) of the premises that lead to them. Skeptical solutions accept the truth of the paradox, but argue that it does not undermine our ordinary beliefs and practices in the way it seems to. Because Kripke thinks that Wittgenstein endorses the skeptical paradox, he is committed to the view that Wittgenstein offers a skeptical, and not a straight, solution.
This is for Frank Bruni. I am sure it will help him with oxymorons or contradictions.
It is about paradoxes, but he can surely find his way here.
When you get into an oxymoron, or a contradiction, you are now just a short step, a slip of the foot, out on thin ice, away from a paradox!
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