on certainty 323

323. So rational suspicion must have grounds?

We might also say: “the reasonable man believes this”.

a suspicion is an uncertainty

and if a suspicion has a ‘ground’ –

the ground is uncertain –

call that ‘rational’ – if you wish

it is not that ‘the reasonable man believes this’ –

it is rather that the reasonable man –

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© greg t. charlton. 2010.