32. It’s not a matter of Moore’s knowing that there is a hand there, but rather we should not
understand him if he were to say “Of course I may be wrong about this”. We should ask “What is it like to make such a
mistake as that?” – e.g. what’s it like to discover that it is a mistake?
if you understand that any proposition –
is open to question – open to doubt
then you see – that what you are dealing
with –
is uncertainty
and so – to claim the certainty –
of being right – or wrong – mistaken or not
–
is to be false – and deceptive
and while such claims –
may have rhetorical impact –
any such impact –
comes at the cost –
of logical integrity
© greg t. charlton. 2009.
