on certainty 54

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.