28. What is ‘learning a rule’? – This.
What is ‘making a mistake in applying it’?
– This. And what is pointed to here is something indeterminate.
yes – and this – could amount anything –
that is to say –
this could be described in any number of ways
‘making a mistake in applying it’ –
the use of any proposition –
so called ‘rule’ – or not –
will be open to question –
open to doubt
saying you’ve got it right –
or that you’ve got it wrong –
that there is a mistake –
or that there is no mistake –
may have rhetorical impact –
but logically speaking –
such claims are baseless
© greg t. charlon. 2009.
