on certainty 666

666. But how is it for example with anatomy (or a large part of it)? Isn’t what it describes, too, exempt from doubt?

anatomy – is the description –

what it describes – is – without description – unknown –

the description that is anatomy is a response to the unknown –

a response that is grounded in doubt –

grounded in uncertainty –

in the question –

how are we to describe this feature of reality?

anatomical description – as with any description –

is a product of this underlying uncertainty –

and as such it is not exempt from doubt –

the history of the description – the history of anatomy –

shows quite clearly that there is no certainty here –

if you wish to adopt as gospel –

a particular theory – a particular description

at a particular place and time  –

and hold to it –

that is not science –

that is stupidity

© greg t. charlton. 2010.