Notes

  1. . David Hume, A Treatise of the Human Understanding (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958), bk. 3, pt. 1, pp. 456–68.
  2. . J. Z. Young, Doubt and Certainty in Science (New York: Oxford University Press, 1960).
  3. . For maintaining that the truth must be told, Picquart was eventually tried and jailed. Eventually, of course, he was freed and reinstated in the army with the rank of general. Sometimes the truth pays.
  4. . C. L. Stevenson, Ethics and Language (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1962). pp. 124–25.
  5. . Charles L. Stevenson, “Ethical Fallibility,” in Ethics and Society: Original Essays on Contemporary Moral Problems, ed. Richard T. De George (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co. 1966), p. 212.