on certainty 238

238.  I might therefore interrogate someone who said that the earth did not exist before his birth, in order to find out which of my convictions he was at odds with. And then it might be that he was contradicting my fundamental attitudes, and if that were how it was, I should have to put up with it.

Similarly if he said he had at some time been on the moon.

what you have here –

is different views

if you want to load up with rhetoric –

and talk of ‘conviction’

and what is ‘fundamental’ –

fair enough

© greg t. charlton. 2010.