54. For it is not true that a mistake
merely gets more and more improbable as we pass from the planet to my own hand.
No: at some point it ceases to be conceivable.
This is already suggested by the following:
if it were not so, it would also be conceivable that we should be wrong in
every statement about physical objects; that any we make are mistaken.
being certain –
is what ceases to be conceivable
it is not that we are right or wrong –
mistaken or not –
any statement about physical objects –
like any proposition – is open to question
–
is open to doubt –
is uncertain
© greg t. charlton. 2009.
