Thursday, October 22, 2009

on certainty 136


136.  When Moore says he knows such and such, he is really enumerating a lot of empirical propositions which we affirm without special testing; propositions that is, which have a peculiar logical role in the system of empirical propositions.
 


when Moore says he knows such and such –

he is claiming an authority for his propositions

the only authority he has –

is authorship –

it is the same authority anyone has –

who asserts –

anything


© greg t. charlton. 2009.