371. Doesn’t “I know that that’s a hand”,
in Moore’s sense, mean the same, or more or less the same, as : I can make
statements like “I have pain in this hand” or “this hand is weaker than the
other” or “I once broke this hand”, and countless others, in a language-game
where a doubt as to the existence of this hand does not come in?
we cannot know in advance –
what will or will not be questioned –
what will or will not be called into doubt
Moore’s claiming ‘to know’ –
is just ignorance
whether or not any description –
or any part of a description –
is called into question –
will depend on circumstance
i.e. there is the phenomenon of the phantom
limb
the fact of it is –
any description can be called into question
–
can be the subject of doubt
what exists is what is said to exist –
and what is said –
is open to question –
open to doubt
© greg t. charlton. 2010.
