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Narrowing the Divide

by Antony Flew

The response by Roger Squires (Issue No. 2, 1991) to my piece in the first issue of Philosophy Now was so sympathetic that I shall now attempt to extend our already considerable measure of agreement.

First, while accepting my distinction between movings and motions he proceeds to object that, in making that distinction, I at least appear to claim “that it is (or essentially involves) a difference in the mover’s experience, like the difference between an ache and an itch, or one colour and another”.

No doubt it did appear to Squires (and perhaps to many others) that I was making that claim. But that was because he (and they) insisted upon construing the word ‘experience’ in its technical, philosophical sense; the sense in which experience is an essentially subjective, ‘in the mind’, Humian impression.

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