135. But do we simply follow a principle
that what has happened always will happen again (or something like it)? What
does it mean to follow this principle? Do we really introduce it into our
reasoning? Or is it merely the natural
law which our inferring apparently follows? This latter it may be. It is
not an item in our considerations.
whether in fact such a principle is
followed –
is an empirical question –
and any answer to it will be open to
question –
open to doubt
what does it mean to follow such a
principle?
you would have to ask those who claim to
follow it –
see what they have too say
do we introduce it into our reasoning?
perhaps some people do
the idea of a natural law is just pretense
–
an attempt to give an assertion –
an authority –
it doesn’t have
© greg t.charlton. 2009.
