"Understanding, however--and sometimes a very considerable depth of it--results from seeing the obstinate difficulties in views which often seem, on other grounds, quite obviously true...Let the reader be warned accordingly, that whenever he hears a philosopher proclaim any metaphysical opinion with great confidence, or hears him asset that something in metaphysics is obvious, or that some metaphysical problem turns only on confusions of concepts or upon the meanings of words, then he can be quite sure that this man is still infinitely far from philosophical understanding. His views appear to him devoid of difficulties only because he stoutly refuses to see difficulties."
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Richard Taylor (philosopher)
Richard C. Taylor (November 5, 1919 – October 30, 2003) was an American philosopher and internationally renowned beekeeper. Taylor taught at Brown University, Columbia and the University of Rochester. He achieved international recognition for his scholarly research in metaphysics and virtue ethics during the late 20th century.
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