57. Now might not “I know, I am not
just surmising, that here is my hand” be conceived as a proposition of grammar?
Hence not temporally. –
But in that case isn’t it like this
one: “I know, I am not just surmising, that I am seeing red”?
And isn’t the consequence “So there are
physical objects” like: “So there are colours”
‘I know, I am not just surmising,
that here is my hand’ –
if ‘I know’ means ‘I am certain’ –
then you have – ‘I am certain – I am not
uncertain’ –
yes – ‘a proposition of grammar’– if you like –
and in so far as it has no content – it is
just a word game –
‘non-temporal’ – yes –
and irrelevant to anything that follows it
so – ‘here is my hand’ and ‘I am seeing
red’ –
are alike in that ‘I know I am not surmising’ –
is of no consequence to either of them –
it’s irrelevant
‘And isn’t the consequence “So there are
physical objects” like: “So there are colours”’ –
‘so there are physical objects’ – is a way of explaining ‘hand’ –
‘so there are colours’ – is a way of explaining ‘red’ –
in so far as the concepts of physical
object and colour –
are explanatory concepts –
yes they are alike – but this is a
similarity of use –
and their use – their actual – temporal use –
is open to question – open to doubt –
is uncertain
we can go even further –
and put the whole concept of explanation –
to the question –
of what value is it?
again this is a question of circumstance
and use –
can you imagine a circumstance –
in which it is of no use –
to explain?
© greg t. charlton. 2009.
