172. Perhaps someone says “there must be some basic
principle on which we accord credence”, but what can such a principle
accomplish? Is it any more than a natural law of ‘taking for true’?
any ‘principle’ –
is open to question –
is open to doubt
is uncertain
what does it accomplish?
as much or as little –
as any proposal we put to use –
as to ‘natural law’ –
there are only propositions –
proposals
and a ‘law’ is only a law –
if you can con someone –
into obeying it
what we take for true –
are those propositions –
we give our assent to
© greg t. charlton. 2010.
