603. I am taught that under such circumstances this happens. It has been discovered by making the experiment a few
times. Not that that would prove anything to us, if it weren’t that this
experience was surrounded by others which combine with it to form a system.
Thus, people did not make experiments just about falling bodies but also about
air resistance and all sorts of other things.
But in the end I rely on these experiences,
or on the reports of them, I feel no scruples about ordering my own activities
in accordance with them. – But hasn’t this trust also proved itself? So far as
I can judge – yes.
a system of propositions – of proposals –
is no more certain – than a single
proposition –
a single proposal
regarding a proposition as part of a system
–
may give you a sense of security –
but in the end –
the system – is just packaging
the reality here is –
if you want to see where a proposition goes
– what it offers –
you play along –
if playing this language-game suits your purpose
–
you’ll continue to play it –
if it is the only option available to you –
you’ll make the best of it
‘so far as I can judge’ –
is a good way of putting it -
for it makes clear –
that any judgment you make –
will be incomplete –
will be uncertain
© greg t. charlton. 2010.
