on certainty 88

88. It may be for example that all enquiry on our part is set so as to exempt certain propositions from doubt, if they are ever formulated. They lie apart from the route travelled by the enquiry.

a proposition is a proposal –

it is by its nature open to question –

a proposition is that which can be doubted

any enquiry set to exclude propositions –

is not an enquiry into anything –

this whole business of ‘exempting’ propositions from doubt –

is no more than a smug and stupid attempt –

to avoid scrutiny

not worthy of anyone with a brain

‘if they are ever formulated’

well you can’t get anything more ridiculous than this –

the idea apparently is you exempt from doubt –

propositions that don’t exist –

‘they lie apart from the route travelled by the enquiry’

we’ve got an enquiry into nothing –

and lying along the road of this enquiry –

propositions – that don’t exist

© greg t. charlton. 2009.