Not P but Moby-Dick (78)

[Mike Jing]

Yes, it was Starbuck again after Stubbs. He was giving commentary after
each one.


On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 2:27 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Oops, that was Starbuck, not Ahab the loon…
>
> He’s got the common sense to look away -
>
> Next Stubbs gets the long soliloquy quoted in “Not P but Moby-Dick (79)”
>
> But who’s that talking after Stubbs?
> Starbuck again?
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 2:20 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > What it sounds like is that as he stares, he becomes more convinced of
> the
> > coin’s veracity -
> > He’s worried if he doesn’t quit looking at it, he will be “shaken
> falsely”
> > by known truths -
> >
> > Honest perceptions will affect (shake) him in such a way as to seem wrong
> > -
> >
> > ie the truth will seem false (because he’s deluded)
> >
> > At least he sort of knows he’s deluded - but wow!
> >
> > Haven’t encountered quite such a raving loon since reading about
> Weissmann
> > in GR
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 2:30 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> From Chapter 99:
> >>
> >> Yet, oh, the great sun is no fixture; and if, at midnight, we would fain
> >> snatch some sweet solace from him, we gaze for him in vain! This coin
> >> speaks wisely, mildly, truly, but still sadly to me. I will quit it,
> lest
> >> Truth shake me falsely.
> >>
> >> What does "shake me falsely" mean here?
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