Thursday, December 24, 2009

on certainty 204


204. Giving grounds, however, justifying evidence, comes to an end; – but the end is not certain propositions’ striking us immediately as true, i.e., it is not a kind of seeing on our part; it is our acting, which lies at the bottom of the language-game.



giving grounds – justifying evidence –

comes to an end –

when you stop doing it

people act – with or without –

playing these ‘language games’

action shows –

these language games –

to be irrelevant –

where they are relevant –

is in the business of persuasion

these are games of rhetoric


© greg t. charlton. 2009.