Monday, June 28, 2010

on certainty 534


 534. But is it wrong to say: “A child that has mastered a language-game must know certain things”?

If instead of that one said “must be able to do certain things”, that would be a pleonasm, yet this is just what I want to counter the first sentence with. –But: “a child acquires knowledge of natural history”. That presupposes that it can ask what such and such a plant is called.



yes – so called knowledge presupposes questioning –

presupposes doubt

and the result of any questioning –

will be open to question –

open to doubt


greg t. charlton. 2010.