ABSTRACT
In his Principles of Psychology, William James has remarked: ‘The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.’ I like the remark not just because it wisely overlooks so many other aspects of wisdom, but also because assessing what is overlooked does indeed seem to be quite a good way of judging what is being asserted. For example, the various approaches to moral judgments can plausibly be examined in terms of what the approaches respectively leave out. The dog that does not bark provides the clue.
