on certainty 327

327. So it might be said: “The reasonable man believes: that the earth has been there since long before his birth, that his life has been spent on the surface of the earth, or near it, that he has never, for example, been on the moon, that he has a nervous system an various innards like all other people, etc., etc.”

if you drop the rhetoric –

‘the reasonable man believes …’

what you have here –

is a series of propositions –

proposals

these propositions –

may well be generally agreed to –

nevertheless –

they are open to question –

and open to doubt –

and as such –

uncertain

© greg t.charlton. 2010.