Friday, August 27, 2010

on certainty 620


620. In particular circumstances one says “you can rely on this”; and this assurance may be justified or unjustified in every day language, and it may also count as justified even when what was foretold does not occur. A language-game exists in which this assurance is employed.



yes – it is the language-game of rhetoric


© greg t. charlton. 2010.