on certainty 335

335. The procedure in a court of law rests on the fact that circumstances give statements a certain probability. The statement that, for example, someone came into the world without parents wouldn’t be taken into consideration there.

in the Scopes trial in Tennessee in 1925 – William Jennings Bryan before Judge Raulston argued the creationist case –

part of which was that Adam and Eve did not have parents –

the court took this into consideration

Wittgenstein’s idea of jurisprudence –

is based not it seems on the practice of law –

but his own philosophical prejudices

© greg t. charlton. 2010.