In first-year ordinary philosophy seminars, students used to debate the question of whether we can rely on the evidence of our senses to give us an accurate account of the real world.
Is this a real table before me, or am I just dreaming or imagining a table? I've been having similar problems with the referendum debate.
There was Alistair Darling, the former Chancellor and an ardent fiscal unionist, saying at the weekend: "Most people think the present settlement does need to change and my view is that any Parliament that can spend money but doesn't have the pain of raising it isn't satisfactory." Well, actually, most people in the Labour Party do not think the present settlement needs to change – at least not in the direction of fiscal autonomy, or devolution max, or federalism, or whatever you like to call it. Or so I thought.
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In first-year ordinary philosophy seminars, students used to debate the question of whether we can rely on the evidence of our senses to give us an accurate account of the real world.
Is this a real table before me, or am I just dreaming or imagining a table? I've been having similar problems with the referendum debate.
There was Alistair Darling, the former Chancellor and an ardent fiscal unionist, saying at the weekend: "Most people think the present settlement does need to change and my view is that any Parliament that can spend money but doesn't have the pain of raising it isn't satisfactory." Well, actually, most people in the Labour Party do not think the present settlement needs to change – at least not in the direction of fiscal autonomy, or devolution max, or federalism, or whatever you like to call it. Or so I thought.
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Don't show me this again.