Stocker (1990) discusses the nature of moral conflict at great length, and although he thinks that many apparent conflicts can be dissolved or are not serious, like Williams, he argues that much of contemporary philosophy's demand for simplicity is mistaken.
At the end, almost as a postscript, we get to read Dot's Diary, which, despite all its simplicity and spelling mistakes, is very telling and revealing.
But don't mistake simplicity for ease.
Deferring to that incoherence can feel dizzying, and there is an urge to simplify, but simplicity is often a mistake: not pure but reductive.
Simplicity should never be mistaken for lack of character or distinction, especially when the beers are as vibrant and alive as our favorite dunkels.
Concerned as it is with the limits of consciousness -- with characters who sleep too much or too easily, conflate dreams and reality or become haunted by the past -- the text picks up an ethereal, spare quality that should not be mistaken for simplicity.
Like the "Blue Nudes" series, it's almost daring in its abstract simplicity and could never be mistaken for decorative art.
This evangelism is seductive in its simplicity and passion, and is being mistaken for a proactive strategy instead of the isolated and abstract tactic that 21st century statecraft should be.
"Every step that I take is another mistake," she sings, bringing childhood simplicity to a very grown-up set of emotions.
The unarguable simplicity of those colourful facts turns what could be mistaken for a crude piece of agit-prop into a powerfully disinterested and witty observation.
