on certainty 172

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.