From memory, the student in (2) was female. That has been one of the parts that ...

pbhjpbhj · on Jan 19, 2018

Can you expand on that - I'm failing to see how the sex of the student is relevant?

jstanley · on Jan 19, 2018

2 separate points. The student was female (OP said "he"), and also that passage was notable (but not because she was female).

Wildgoose · on Jan 19, 2018

Yes, although I should probably haven't brought the correction up in the first place as it wasn't relevant to the main point.

brianpan · on Jan 20, 2018

Details, as they say...

Wildgoose · on Jan 19, 2018

It's not.

CurtMonash · on Jan 19, 2018

Thanks! It's been a while since I read the book -- I'm guessing a little less than 40 years -- so my memory is beyond foggy on the details.

But even though I recall little about its specifics, that book was very influential on my approach to epistemology.