on certainty 141

141.When we first begin to believe anything, what we believe is not a single proposition, it is a whole system of propositions. (Light dawns gradually over the whole.)

says who?

Wittgenstein –

look – anyone can say –

that a particular proposition –

entails – whatever –

whatever it suits them to assume –

follows –

and yes you can call that –

‘a whole system’ –

if that’s what suits your purpose

the fact of it is though –

what follows from what –

logically speaking –

is uncertain –

arguments get advanced –

propositional constructions –

get  proposed –

and so on –

and the light dawns gradually –

that what you are dealing with –

is rhetoric

© greg t. charlton. 2009.