72. Not every false belief is this sort of
mistake.
a false belief –
is a belief – you dissent from –
your dissent – like the belief itself –
is open to question –
open to doubt –
is uncertain
logically speaking there are no mistakes –
if you are certain there cannot be a mistake
if on the other hand –
you recognize that your belief is uncertain
what you face is uncertainties –
not mistakes
‘mistake’ is a commonly used word –
it’s a word you might use –
when you haven’t thought the matter through
once subjected to analysis –
the ‘mistake’ is shown to have no place –
in the epistemological debate –
concerning certainty and uncertainty
once subjected to analysis –
the ‘mistake’ –
disappears
© greg t. charlton. 2010.
