274. One such is that if someone’s arm is cut off it will
not grow again. Another, if someone’s head is cut off he is dead and will never
live again.
Experience can be said to teach us these propositions.
However, it does not teach us them in isolation: rather, it teaches us a host
of interdependent propositions. If they were isolated I might perhaps doubt
them, for I have no experience relating to them.
whether taken in isolation –
or regarded as interdependent –
empirical propositions –
are open to question –
open to doubt –
uncertain
© greg t. charlton. 2010.
